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From Boom to Dip: Understanding Coffee Price Fluctuations and Uganda’s Path to Premium Exports
Brazil is, by far, the world’s largest coffee producer and as the saying goes: If Brazil sneezes, the rest of the coffee world catches a cold. Brazil produces both arabica and robusta.
In the recent price rise, robusta prices shot up so steeply that they almost caught up with arabica’s, to the benefit of coffee producers.
By: Dr Ian Clarke, Journalists @
Recently, concern over falling coffee prices has risen. If one did not know the whole story, one might assume that the fall has been disastrous for coffee farmers.
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