Latin American Economy & Business - December 2017 (ISSN 1741-7430)

While the region’s main coffee producer, Brazil, is cutting projections for coffee output amidst continuing troubles with pests and drought, the Honduran coffee sector is enjoying a firm recovery. In its latest report, released on 7 November, the International Coffee Organization (ICO) revised up its global coffee production forecast for crop year 2016/2017 to 157.4m bags, a 3.4 % increase on 2015/2016, due largely to the increase in production in Honduras, the ICO noted.