The European Union (EU) has introduced new legislation to prevent imports of commodities contributing to deforestation. One of the commodities affected is coffee, a key export of Central American countries . Coffee represents 14 percent and 52 percent of total agrifood exports in Guatemala and Honduras respectively, and a fifth of all exported Guatemalan coffee and half of the coffee exported from Honduras are destined to the EU. The new EU regulation is thus very relevant for these two countries, and in particular for their many smallholder coffee producers.

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