The farm is located in the steep valleys of Los Santos, one of Costa Rica’s most-famous coffee growing regions. But almost none of the people picking coffee there are Costa Ricans. Instead ...

This organization became the Instuto del Café de Costa Rica (ICAFE), which still exists today. ICAFE has a wide-ranging involvement in the coffee industry, running experimental research farms and ...

The next stop is a tour of the Hacienda Alsacia Starbucks Coffee Farm to learn about the remarkable history and tradition of growing coffee in Costa Rica. Our experience includes sampling gourmet ...

Seven percent of a Costa Rican coffee farm's annual income, US$62,000, comes directly from the pollination "services" of adjacent tropical forest, according to a new study published by a WWF scientist ...