LIMA — A local coffee connoisseur left corporate America to follow a still small voice that led him to El Salvador on a missions trip. One leap of faith changed the life of Dave Tilton forever.

For Alberto Ferracuti, a coffee grower in El Salvador, bourbon really does grow on trees. Ferracuti and many other farmers in the Central American country have turned to speciality coffee trees ...

El Salvador, already the most densely populated country in the Americas, is fast losing its remaining green areas as traditional coffee farms make way for weekend homes and urban sprawl.

El Salvador coffee group Procafe said on Wednesday just 6,517 60-kg bags of coffee were lost when Hurricane Ida triggered heavy rains and floods in the Central American country this past weekend.

An outbreak that hit production in the 2013/2014 crop year, the worst on record, cut coffee output in Central America by 10 percent. El Salvador was among the hardest hit, and has yet to fully ...