Tag Archives: Peter Baker

Coffee’s Farmworker Problem: A Coming Crisis?

2015-06-30 Comments Off on Coffee’s Farmworker Problem: A Coming Crisis?

Over the past year and a half, I have done some reading about two related and complementary disciplines: horizon-scanning and scenario planning.  The first refers to intentional and systematic efforts to gather and analyze information about threats and opportunities that loom; the second to how we use that intelligence to identify likely future scenarios and […]

357. Help wanted in Central America: Lead the response to coffee rust

2013-05-07 Comments Off on 357. Help wanted in Central America: Lead the response to coffee rust

At the conclusions of the First International Coffee Rust Summit in Guatemala last month, the noted coffee agronomist Peter Baker confided to me that he did not think the event answered the most important question: “The Beyoncé Question.” I was confused. He elaborated: “It’s a line from one of her songs: ‘Who run this mother?’” […]