How the coffee crisis might affect you

In 2019, a latte - foam art and all - costs the average US coffee drinker around $5 (£4). So why are the farmers who grew the beans behind your morning brew abandoning their plantations for different crops, different jobs, or even to seek asylum in a different country?

The world's coffee industry is in crisis. This May, coffee prices fell to their lowest point in over a decade at $0.88 (£0.70) per pound.

The dip is largely due to two years of surplus from Brazil, the world's largest coffee producer, which has had a serious impact on growers around the world by pushing millions of kilograms of beans onto the market. Economic issues in coffee-producing regions like Central America and Africa are also at work.

As of mid-July, market prices have crept up to around $1 - but it's still the lowest price the industry has seen in 10 years.

But in recent years, consumers in the US and UK have seen the price of a latte rise - even though farmers see less than 2% of those profits.

Here's how the crisis is playing out at each link in the coffee chain.