Climate change is impacting coffee yields and increasing prices, causing concern for consumers and growers. Regenerative farming and techniques like composting can help lower costs and boost quality.

Global brands are driving commodity risk and deforestation through their supply chains—exposing themselves to growing legal, financial, and reputational risk.

Despite the global financial crisis and recent natural disasters, Guatemala continues to have huge potential for economic growth. But with the second lowest social indicators in the region, rising ...

A medium-to-serious degree of deforestation by tobacco presumably exists in parts of South America (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia), the Caribbean (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, ...

Breaking with Guatemala’s authoritarian past Eighty years later, the Guatemalan Revolution remains an emblematic period of profound social and political transformation in Latin American history ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Jun 2018) (15 pages) We focus here on deforestation and human development dynamics among 211 small and medium-sized municipalities (in terms of population) in the ...

Mayan forest concessions in Guatemala: A model for combating deforestation In the north of the country, vast tracts of tropical forest are protected by local populations who practice sustainable ...

According to new research published by the Neotropic Foundation and the Prisma Foundation of El Salvador, the cocaine trade contributes to climate change, causes more than $200 million in damage ...

The palm oil industry’s expansion in Guatemala is causing a huge transfer of rural territory from traditional subsistence farming communities to a handful of palm oil mill owners.

Rates of deforestation decreased significantly during the last year in Colombia and Brazil, two Amazonian nations that have historically been among the 10 countries with the highest forest loss in the ...

Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve's community-driven forest restoration, combating illegal ranching and celebrating biodiversity's return.