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Global coffee, cacao prices reach historic highs due to climate change

Global coffee, cacao prices reach historic highs due to climate change

by Jiana Smith | May 20, 2024 | Featured, Inflation, Retail, Trade

Kinani Ahmed, owner of Sextant Coffee Roasters in San Francisco, opened his roastery in 2014 with a goal of sharing the finest coffees of Ethiopia with others.  But since the COVID-19 pandemic, that goal has become more and more expensive. The civil war in Ethiopia,...

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