Ivan Kashinsky In 1967 David Cheever, a graduate student in horticulture at Colorado State University, wrote a term paper titled “Bogotá, Colombia as a Cut-Flower Exporter for World Markets.” ...

Colombia exports millions of cut flowers every year, and most of them end up in the US. But working in the flower business is not always rosy. Colombian flower-farm workers endure long hours ...

Colombia has an ideal climate and soil for growing flowers such as roses, carnations and chrysanthemums. Much of the cultivation is centered in the savanna around the capital Bogota. Temperatures ...

Olmos has worked in Colombia's flower fields for two decades. And the scope of his job has changed massively since he started working in the Colombian flower industry. Since the early 1990s ...

Valentine’s Day is the most lucrative date in the flower retailers’ calendar yet workers in developing ... poverty charity War on Want has found the mainly female workforce in Colombia and Kenya ...

And the sector faces other challenges, particularly around sustainability. We visit a flower farm in Colombia and go to Bogota airport to see how the country exports this most delicate and ...