Peace Gives Colombian Coffee an Extra Shot

Peace Gives Colombian Coffee an Extra Shot
Libardo Garcia, a farmer who was displaced during the terrorist violence and returned to grow coffee with his family, looks out in San Carlos, Colombia July 13, 2017. REUTERS/Federico Rios
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SAN CARLOS, Colombia—Farmers who fled war in the Colombian Andes are returning to revive their abandoned land, cultivating coffee trees that are boosting global supplies of the highest-quality beans.

Colombia’s five-decade civil war, the longest in the Americas, displaced millions and disrupted farming for decades in areas that produce coffee for the most exacting consumer.