With the arabica bean no longer providing an escape from poverty, farmers have turned north
Migrants crossing from Guatemala into Mexico. Photo: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images The working poor of Guatemala face a triple bind. Because of extreme poverty in the country — where seven of every ten farming families live in poverty and almost half of children under five have chronic malnutrition — subsistence farmers are expected to take the brunt of climate change in Central America.
Though it’s less attention-grabbing than the prior two concerns, macroeconomic problems are pressuring the farmers of Guatemala — a force just as detached and unyielding for the global poor as something like climate change. According to a new report from the Washington Post, a major fall in the price of coffee has cut out a huge income source for Guatemalan farmers, helping to fuel the spike in migration to the United States. Coffee prices have dropped about 60 percent since 2015, from $2.
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