Coffee crisis, NYTimes video

[Aadje]

Interesting short video from the New York Times on coffee in Colombia

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/03/10/science/earth/100000000667223/colombias-coffee-crisis.html

[bruceb]

It must be saddening and difficult for the farmers there. I'm not sure, however, that this is a really new development. I remember in the late 1950s or 1960s that there was a similar "crisis," and my parents were dismayed at the price of coffee. I think these things are cyclical and if not predictable are at least not permanent.

[Aadje]

As with everything I also think these are cyclical. But I hope overall progress is being made, so the whole cyclical process inclines upwards.