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Palm Oil, Cocoa, Coffee… Who’s Going to Tend to Tomorrow’s Large Tropical Plantations?

Palm oil plantations, for one, are increasingly struggling with the sector’s declining attractiveness, which has hardly changed since the colonial era. Behind basic foodstuffs like palm oil, cocoa, coffee and bananas...

2026.07.13

AFDagricultural workersbananasCiradcocoacolonial historyColumnsFAOFarmer IssuesFrench Development Agencygender inequalityIndonesiaJohn McCarthylaborLatin AmericaMalaysiamechanizationmigrant laborOriginpalm oilplantationsRoundtable on Sustainable Palm OilRSPOrural employmentsmallholder farmersSoutheast AsiaStefano PonteSustainabilityTALENT projecttropical agricultureWest Africaコーヒー

Palm Oil, Cocoa, Coffee… Who’s Going to Tend to Tomorrow’s Large Tropical Plantations?

Palm oil plantations, for one, are increasingly struggling with the sector’s declining attractiveness, which has hardly changed since the colonial era. Behind basic foodstuffs like palm oil, cocoa, coffee and bananas...

2026.07.13

AFDagricultural workersbananasCiradcocoacolonial historyColumnsFAOFarmer IssuesFrench Development Agencygender inequalityIndonesiaJohn McCarthylaborLatin AmericaMalaysiamechanizationmigrant laborOriginpalm oilplantationsRoundtable on Sustainable Palm OilRSPOrural employmentsmallholder farmersSoutheast AsiaStefano PonteSustainabilityTALENT projecttropical agricultureWest Africaコーヒー

Palm Oil, Cocoa, Coffee… Who’s Going to Tend to Tomorrow’s Large Tropical Plantations?

Palm oil plantations, for one, are increasingly struggling with the sector’s declining attractiveness, which has hardly changed since the colonial era. Behind basic foodstuffs like palm oil, cocoa, coffee and bananas...

2026.07.13

AFDagricultural workersbananasCiradcocoacolonial historyColumnsFAOFarmer IssuesFrench Development Agencygender inequalityIndonesiaJohn McCarthylaborLatin AmericaMalaysiamechanizationmigrant laborOriginpalm oilplantationsRoundtable on Sustainable Palm OilRSPOrural employmentsmallholder farmersSoutheast AsiaStefano PonteSustainabilityTALENT projecttropical agricultureWest Africaコーヒー

Report Highlights Glaring Discrepancies in Coffee Value Distribution

A new economic report shows that while coffee has enough value to ensure profitability for everyone in the supply chain, the current distribution of value heavily favors roasters and...

2024.06.19

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Boston-Area Blue Bottle Coffee Workers Seek Unionization

Workers from five Boston-area locations of Blue Bottle Coffee today launched a union campaign described as more than a year in the making. A group by the name of Blue...

2024.04.04

Barista NewsBlue Bottle CoffeeBlue Bottle Independent UnionBusiness OperationsCorporateIndustrylaborNational Labor Relations BoardNortheastRetailUnionsUnited Statesコーヒー