The price of coffee has fallen to its lowest level since 2008, spurring an urgency meeting between Colombian coffee farmers and the government, local media reported on Thursday.
A rural peasant reserve zone is a specified area of land designed to “stabilize the peasant economy, prevent the expansion of the agricultural frontier and neutralize the concentration of ownership”,…
Colombia’s government is proposing a new system to deliver subsidies to coffee farmers in an attempt to avoid the second national industry strike this year.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday said the government will be launching a humanitarian offensive to help those affected by protests in the northeast of the country.
Coffee farmers from western Colombia have sued the government, demanding an end to restriction of the production of lower-quality Colombian coffee and the import of foreign coffee of that quality,…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday said he will not succumb to the pressure of striking farmers in the northeastern Catatumbo region and fast-track the creation of peasant reserve…
The Colombian government on Thursday convened a meeting with coffee farmers to avoid a proposed strike scheduled for August 19.
Colombia’s Finance Minister said on Wednesday that the government can not give more subsidies to the coffee farmers, who threaten to go on strike in August as promised subsidies were…
Government representatives and peasant leaders from the northeastern Colombian Catatumbo region resumed talks on Tuesday, but failed to come to an agreement to end social unrest in the troubled region.