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A coffee farm on hillside land in Colombia
World
Monday, 7/20, 01:33 AM

Why Colombia Keeps Failing to Pay Farmers Out of Coca

  • Colombia has spent a decade trying to pay growers to replace coca with coffee and cocoa.
  • Cultivation has risen anyway, to a record 253,000 hectares.
  • The reason is less about ideology than arithmetic: coca has a buyer at the farm gate, and coffee does not.

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