Mendoza and 82 other field hands have been squatting illegally on this coffee plantation in northern Nicaragua ever since their employer defaulted on loans and lost the property to the bank.

The plantations are situated in an ideal coffee-growing region located near Matagalpa, Nicaragua, which is historically known for the production of high-quality coffee. Each plantation is ...

After earning a Fulbright Fellowship in 2013, Kristin Van Busum was determined to help small-scale coffee growers in Nicaragua tap into the global coffee market and improve their quality of life.

William Gutierrez has cornered the local coffee market by hard-selling big-time chefs and never taking no for an answer. “The gift of gab,” says chef/restaurateur Jeffrey Buben, “is an understatement.

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Nicaragua's coffee trail invites travellers to uncover the country's natural beauty away from the well-trodden tourist routes. Photograph by INTUR. By SJ Armstrong. February 28, 2025.

Six people, including an 8-year-old girl, have been killed by a swarm of bees after a bus they were riding on plunged into a ravine and hit several beehives. All passengers survived the initial ...

Costa Rica has long depended on Nicaraguan migrant workers to harvest its coffee. But a new set of immigration laws in Nicaragua has made it harder for its farmworkers to leave the country. The ...

Managua - With climate change threatening crops in many parts of the world, Nicaragua is turning to a robust variety of coffee bean to protect one of its key exports. The appropriately named robusta ...

Some plantations in Vietnam, which specialize in lower-grade robusta coffee, have been shifting instead into durian, a uniquely pungent (some say stinky) fruit, to cash in on rising demand in China.