Introduction In 2025, Vietnam’s coffee industry achieved what few agricultural sectors anywhere in the world can claim: a record export revenue of approximately $8.6 billion — a 58.78% surge over the prior year — making coffee the country’s single most … Xem thêm

The survey team that visited Ea H’leo District in Dak Lak Province two years ago recorded the household as a two-person farming operation. The land title is in the husband’s name. The bank loan taken out in 2019 to finance … Xem thêm

Nguyen Van Thanh planted his first cashew trees in 1994, the year his second son was born and the year he decided, with the particular confidence of a thirty-year-old man who has just watched a neighbor turn a modest grove … Xem thêm

By the time Tran Van Duc realizes he does not have enough people, the cherries are already turning red. This happens every year now — not the ripening, which follows its own reliable schedule across the slopes of Dak Lak … Xem thêm

Introduction A bag of roasted cashews on a supermarket shelf in New York, Amsterdam, or Shanghai costs between $7 and $15 per kilogram. The farmer in Côte d’Ivoire who grew and harvested the raw nuts inside that bag received, in … Xem thêm

Introduction Coffee is among the most traded agricultural commodities on Earth, consumed daily by an estimated 2.5 billion people across more than 70 countries. As global demand continues to grow — with projections suggesting it could triple by 2050 — … Xem thêm

Y Bhim remembers clearly the day he planted his first coffee tree. He does not remember the year — people in his village do not store time that way — but he remembers that the early rains had just come, … Xem thêm

Introduction In Dak Lak province — the epicenter of Vietnam’s Robusta coffee belt — a smallholder farmer with one hectare of productive land can earn the equivalent of USD 6,500 in a strong price year, and less than USD 2,800 … Xem thêm

Introduction Across the coffee-growing highlands of Vietnam — from the red basalt soils of Dak Lak to the misty terraces of Son La — a quiet but consequential exodus is unfolding. The people leaving are not seasonal migrants or displaced … Xem thêm

Nguyen Thi Lan does her accounting by lamplight. Not because the power is out — the single bulb above her table works fine — but because the habit formed years ago when it wasn’t, and some practices outlast the conditions … Xem thêm