BBC NEWS | Business | Oxfam launches 'Coffee Rescue' plan (#)

  „The campaign comes a week before the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) is due to meet and discuss ways to solve the crisis. Big four drinkers Oxfam is attacking what it calls the "big four" coffee companies - Kraft, Sara Lee, Procter & Gamble and Nestle - which it says buy nearly half the world's coffee crop between them.“

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BBC NEWS | Business | Why cheap beans don't make cheap coffee

  „So world coffee prices halved and have remained volatile ever since. Was this break-up of the coffee-makers' cartel good news for coffee drinkers? Not immediately: It took four years for the supermarkets to slash the price of coffee, and then only by 20%. And when prices bounced back in 1994, up 50%, the retail price rose immediately and stayed high despite another fall in world prices in 1995.“

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BBC News | BUSINESS | Coffee farmers 'face destitution'

  „Oxfam says farmers are losing out Meanwhile, the charity says, big multinational food companies, cafe and restaurant chains in rich nations have gained enormously from the drop in prices. The value of raw coffee beans has fallen sharply in the last three years due to overproduction, but prices paid for the processed product in consuming nations have remained much the same. Minimum wage Oxfam says the price of raw coffee exported from producer countries accounts for less than 7% of the eventual cost of coffee to Western consumers - the rest, over 90%, goes to coffee processors and retailers in rich countries. Oxfam cites increased profits at Nestle, the giant Swiss instant coffee processor, and the fashionable American coffee shop chain Starbucks as evidence of its case.“

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | GM decaf coffee plant created

  „But according to the trade body, the International Coffee Organisation (ICO), several major questions remain - not least over how the cost of the GM technology will compare with the industrial decaffeination process used currently. Bitter battle Pablo Dubois, from the ICO, said: "The global market for coffee is about $70bn a year, and decaf makes up about 10% of that. "The main issue would be the economics - is it going to be cheaper to buy GM seeds and grow them than to decaffeinate coffee as we do now?" Other researchers, some in commercial companies, have been working on GM decaf for several years. But Professor Alan Crozier, from the biochemistry department in Glasgow University, UK, says this is the first credible evidence that the GM decaffeination concept actually works.“

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BBC - Health - Healthy living - Caffeinated drinks

  „There is good news for coffee drinkers. It has been found that coffee may be beneficial in some areas of health. Early research has found that coffee may reduce the risk of developing gallstones, kidney stones and colorectal cancer.“

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