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Family-run farms in El Salvador and Honduras face mounting losses, rising costs – and the need to adapt or be left behind Read more of our Coffee crisis series here On a steep hillside in western El Salvador , Oscar Leiva watches rainfall in December, a month that once marked the start of the dry season. During this harvest cycle, flowering came early and then stalled. A heatwave followed. What remains of the crop is uneven, lower in quality and more expensive to produce than the last. For Leiva
Source : The Guardian