As weather shifts, coffee farmers struggle to produce

SANTA MARIA DE DOTA, Costa Rica – A mile above this rural mountain town, coffee trees have produced some of the world’s best arabica beans for more than a century. Now farmers are planting even higher – at nearly 7,000 feet – thanks to warmer temperatures. “We noticed about six years ago, the weather changed,” said Ricardo Calderon Madrigal, whose family harvests ripe, red coffee cherries at the ...

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