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Transfair USA | Press Releases
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„"By offering Starbucks Shade Grown Mexico and Fair Trade Certified coffees we are building upon our commitment to offer high quality products to Hyatt's guests.""The addition of Starbucks Commitment to Origins coffees is an invitation for Hyatt guests to help support the sustainability of coffee farming families around the globe, while enjoying the highest quality coffees," said Sue Mecklenburg, vice president of Business Practices for Starbucks. "These coffees reinforce Starbucks vision and the relationships we have in coffee origin countries." Commitment to Origins is Starbucks pledge to provide the highest-quality coffee while contributing to the social, economic and environmental sustainability of coffee production. It's part of Starbucks mission, and the foundation for involvement in coffee-origin countries. Hyatt hotels and resorts across the country will continue to add Starbucks Shade Grown Mexico and Fair Trade coffees to their selections within the coming months.“http://www.transfairusa.org/content/about/ pr_030226.php - Cached
„Her experiences range from founding and directing a center in San Salvador for the exchange of information on alternative technology, to direct participation in technical training and marketing development with coffee producers’ cooperatives in Chiapas— including Mut Vitz and Maya Vinic from whom Cooperative Coffees maintains a relationship. From 1996 to 2000 she coordinated a regional program within the Campesino a Campesino network for information exchange on production practices for organic coffee and viable market alternatives among farmers from Chiapas and the rest of Central America. Abby Welch, I am the newest employee (Administrative Assistant) of the Cooperative Coffees team here in Americus, GA. I am a junior at Georgia Southwestern State University majoring in Accounting.“http://www.cooperativecoffees.com/about/ staff.html - Cached
„At one time, Venezuela ranked close to Colombia in coffee production, but in the 1960s and 70s, as petroleum turned Venezuela into the richest country in South America, coffee was relegated to the economic back burner. Today Venezuela produces less than one percent of the world's coffee, and most of it is drunk by the Venezuelans themselves. Now that petroleum has failed to bring lasting prosperity, the Venezuelan government is attempting to promote coffee growing and exporting again as a means of diversifying and stabilizing its economy.“http://www.timeforcoffee.com/coffeetime/ country2.asp - Cached
„Not only do Rainforest Alliance standards protect the land, they support the rights and social conditions of workers and local communities. The current crisis in coffee production, brought on by a glut in the market, is forcing farmers worldwide to abandon their crops. In Mexico, entire villages have been turned into ghost towns as villagers flee to find work in the squalid shantytowns of Mexico City, or in Canada and the U.S. Because certified beans commands higher premiums than mass-produced coffee, certified farms like Santa Elena can afford to provide workers' families with benefits such as improved working conditions, safety equipment, training, environmental education, better housing, sanitary facilities, clean water, and access to schools and medical care. "Today we have companies from all over the world who are willing to negotiate a premium because they understand the challenges to producing a high-quality, sustainable coffee such as ours," says Astrid Bernstoff, Santa Elena's Vice-President of Marketing.“http://www.aboutcoffee.net/ 2003_01_26_bcearc.html - Cached
„The Colombian Coffee Federation has done a commendable job in promoting the specialty coffees of Colombia. Although most of the Colombian coffee you find in the stores is overrated, excellent examples are available. Freshly roasted Colombian coffee is rich in flavor, heavy bodied, has a bright acidity, and is intensely aromatic. Colombia produces about 12% of the coffee in the world, second only to Brazil (Note: This year coffee production in Vietnam is expected to surpass that of Colombia. Unfortunately, Vietnam produces almost 100% Robusta).“http://www.coffeeresearch.org/coffee/ colombia.htm - Cached
Coffee Books, Posters & Misc.
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„The Coffee Tree comes next, an up-close look at the plant structure, cultivars, hybrids, husbandry, and diseases. Next comes Cultivation, which starts with an overview of the small-scale of coffee production and then creates portraits of the major growing regions to compare and contrast.The chapters Harvesting and Processing give an intimate view of the options facing farmers in farm and mill techniques that have a huge bearing on the cup flavors. And finally there is Consumption which involves coffee quality analysis (cupping) and consumer preference. What impresses me is this is a sweeping overview of the coffee world that is, at every turn, near it's subject, passing from the macro to micro view effortlessly.“http://www.sweetmarias.com/ prod.book.poster.misc.shtml - Cached
„The impact of a worldwide coffeeglut was buffered by the International Coffee Agreement, which called for the stockpilingof stored coffee beans by participating countries. The collapse of this agreement (1989)and the trend towards free market economics has caused a crisis in coffee production. Inthe wake of the price collapse, countries such as Colombia have taken deliberate steps tomodernize production, driving small and "inefficient" growers into alternativeland uses. With a simultaneous reduction in access to agricultural credits, many farmersstruggle to make ends meet and some have been forced to alter their coffee plantations byremoving canopy trees for fire-wood or abandoning coffee as their cash crop altogether.“http://www.koffeekorner.com/birdsare.htm - Cached
Transfair USA | Press Releases
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„Both of these coffees are smooth, sweet, and engaging. It's wonderful to be able to offer such truly fine-tasting shade-grown certified organic Fair Trade coffees that will help Green Mountain Coffee and the National Wildlife Federation spread the word about the benefits of shaded organic coffee production and Fair Trade." The nation's largest member-supported conservation education and advocacy group, the National Wildlife Federation unites people from all walks of life to protect nature, wildlife and the world we all share. The Federation has educated and inspired families to uphold America's conservation tradition since 1936. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.“http://www.transfairusa.org/content/about/ pr_030507.php - Cached
CoffeeGeek - So You Say There's a Coffee Crisis
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„With the alarming rate of "quality coffee" producing farms disappearing from the global scene, we could end up with a scenario where there simply isn't enough coffee (of any quality) to go around in a few years. That would drive the prices of remaining coffee production way, way up, and it is quite possible that in a decade or so, the Big Four may be paying $3 a pound for the world's worst coffee: robusta from Vietnam. Meanwhile you and I, the folks seeking true quality coffee, might be paying as much as $8 or $10 a pound green for some of the lower "specialty" coffees still remaining. And worse still, some of the world's truly great coffees may be gone for ever.“http://www.coffeegeek.com/opinions/markprince/ 11-27-2002 - Cached
CoffeeGeek - Coffee Crisis: TechnoServe Releases Fact-Based Industry Analysis
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„ "They were saved from total collapse through TechnoServe's pilot programs in upgrading coffee quality, starting in the northeast around the Arusha and Kilimanjaro Regions, resulting in farm gate prices for specialty coffee up to 50% higher than neighboring coffee of lesser quality. TechnoServe has demonstrated that entrepreneurial farmers can earn more money by shifting to specialty coffee production. Their model -- including establishing farmer-owned central pulperies combined with better marketing and timely advice to government on coffee policies -- is creating a new specialty coffee industry, leading to new hope for our rural poor and more foreign exchange for the country."“http://www.coffeegeek.com/resources/pressreleases/ technoservedec42003 - Cached
BBC News | BUSINESS | Quality focus boosts coffee growers
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„Andrew Enever reports from Bolivia. Coffee production has been a bad business in recent times. A massive increase in world production has hit the price of beans on the New York coffee market, where coffee fell from a 10-year average of around $1.20 per pound to an all-time low of only $0.42 per pound earlier this year. When I went into coffee nobody knew Panama produced anything except Noriega Price Peters, coffee producer However, in the lush tropical Andean valleys, a short, steep descent from Bolivia's capital La Paz, experts from Colombia and Panama are persuading producers to pay greater attention to their plantations.“http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1937731.stm - Cached
Amazon.com: Books: The Joy of Coffee: The Essential Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying
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„Is it essential to grind coffee beans at home?" What he learned in response to these queries comprises the bulk of The Joy of Coffee. Starting with a tour of a coffee plantation and ending in the reader's own kitchen, Kummer leads a lively and informative discussion of all phases of coffee production, from harvesting to roasting to brewing. He discusses different roasts and the different types of coffeemakers, and he even talks about caffeine consumption and methods of decaffeination that preserve the bean's flavor. At the end of The Joy of Coffee is a chapter chock full of recipes for tasty treats that either go well with coffee or include it as an ingredient.“http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1576300609/ - Cached
Coffee: A Celebration of Diversity 278 Pages - The Best Coffee Book Ever!
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„The Coffee Tree comes next, an up-close look at the plant structure, cultivars, hybrids, husbandry, and diseases. Next comes Cultivation, which starts with an overview of the small-scale of coffee production and then creates portraits of the major growing regions to compare and contrast.The chapters Harvesting and Processing give an intimate view of the options facing farmers in farm and mill techniques that have a huge bearing on the cup flavors. And finally there is Consumption which involves coffee quality analysis (cupping) and consumer preference. What impresses me is this is a sweeping overview of the coffee world that is, at every turn, near it's subject, passing from the macro to micro view effortlessly.“http://www.sweetmarias.com/ book-coffee_a_celebration.html - Cached
Global Exchange : 444.html
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„In the same way that business works on the popularization of special mixtures of coffee, suggesting "aroma and taste" to consumers, politicians can make the product more attractive by emphasizing its allegedly noncommercial value. If politicians advocate, for example, "sustainable," "ecological," "protected," or "shade-grown" coffee, that is supposed to mean that they care for people's health and the subordination of production and consumption to a reasonable ecological policy—that is, coffee grown without pesticides, in the shadow of a tree where it grows the best, in the place where the natural habitat of the plant and the biological balance have been preserved, and not in a clearing in the jungle, where primordial pure nature has been destroyed.“http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 444.html - Cached
The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide
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„Jamaica Blue Mountain has been an admired coffee since at least the early 19th century, when for a brief time Jamaica led the world in coffee production. After World War II the British colonial government, alarmed that undisciplined production was on the verge of ruining the Blue Mountain reputation, instituted a rigorous program of regulation and quality control under leadership of the newly established Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica. After Jamaica achieved its independence from Britain, the new Jamaican government continued that coffee policy, requiring that all Blue Mountain be wet-processed at government sanctioned mills and dried, dry-milled, cleaned, and graded at centralized facilities.“http://www.coffeereview.com/reference.cfm?id=55 - Cached
„Last November, I spent a week in Costa Rica, politically and socially the most progressive country in Central America and a long-time leader in coffee quality and technology. Costa Rica's success has resulted in a higher standard of living than its neighbors and in the highest coffee production costs in Central America. It is a country famous for its environmental stewardship and has successfully dealt with many issues that its poorer neighbors have yet to confront (such as water pollution from coffee milling). Visiting this beautiful country at a time of crisis in coffee offered valuable insight into the problems all producers of fine, washed arabica coffees are soon likely to face.“http://www.freshcup.com/feb02_costarica.htm - Cached
Coffee around the World... - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada
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„Arriving with seedlings and a message, missionaries brought the first plants to Kenya, British and German colonialists following up enthusiastically with money, knowledge and real estate! Kenya, under devout government observation, oversees upwards of 2 million bags of coffee production, all wet-processed arabicas and graded with the now infamous letter system. Grown north and east of Nairobi on the plateaus surrounding Mount Kenya on Cooperatives numbering greater than 300,000, small farms cultivate coffee at altitudes between 4,900 and 6,800 feet. Our drip taste tests resulted in the following deductions: It was a very winey cup with light floral notes and a semi-sweet, almost bitter-sweet chocolate bottom that was quite invigorating or almost brisk.“http://www.coffeecrew.com/articles/.../ coffee-around-the-world....html - Cached
Coffee Kids | Microcredit - Huatusco
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„During five years of low coffee prices, even medium and large-sized coffee farms that were not able to cover expenses abandoned many coffee fields. Consequently, banks were not willing to invest any money in coffee production, and all coffee farmers, from the smallest to the largest-scale producers, were negatively affected. Emigration to urban areas increased substantially --people left their communities to find employment in regional cities and as far away as the United States. Those hardest hit were families with the smallest resource base, especially those corn producers that received an important part of their income as migrant coffee workers.“http://www.coffeekids.org/profiles/microcredit/ huatusco.htm - Cached
The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide
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„Colombia remains the only premium single origin coffee able to compete successfully in the arena of canned supermarket blends. Although it ranks second to Brazil in total coffee production -- with about 12 percent of the world's total coffee production compared to Brazil's 30 to 35 percent -- most of Colombia's 12 percent is excellent coffee, grown at high altitudes on small peasant holdings, carefully picked, and wet-processed. The Colombia Federation of Coffee Growers ranks among the world's most thorough-going and successful efforts at organizing and supporting small-holder coffee farmers.“http://www.coffeereview.com/reference.cfm?id=58 - Cached
The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide
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„Nevertheless, it appears that in both Kenya and Ethiopia hard-won traditions of sound artisan coffee production continue to prevail, at least for the top end of the market. Couple the resulting clean, taint-free cup with the serendipitous contributions of soil, climate, Kenya's high growing altitude and Ethiopia's heirloom native coffee varieties, and the aficionado still has extraordinary coffees from both origins to sample and enjoy. The finest coffees from both are cultural treasures that appear to be surviving mainly owing to a network of savvy green coffee buyers coupled with a heroic devotion to task on the part of growers.“http://www.coffeereview.com/article.cfm?id=94 - Cached
The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide
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„Since then he has published three books on coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying, which helped shape the specialty coffee movement in the United States, Home Coffee Roasting: Romance and Revival, and Espresso: Ultimate Coffee, which was nominated for a James Beard award. In 2000 he co-produced, hosted, and wrote the script for "The Passionate Harvest", an hour-long documentary film on coffee production that has won numerous awards, including a prestigious Platinum Award at the Houston Film Festival.“http://www.coffeereview.com/ken_bio.cfm - Cached
Global Exchange : News Updates
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„Difficult Times for Coffee Industry as Demand Falls -- With coffee prices at a 30-year low, the industry is facing perhaps the worst crisis in its history, trapped in a vicious circle of falling demand, surplus production and collapsing prices. Farmers, traders, roasters and retailers all agree urgent action is needed to prevent a slide in coffee quality and the loss of perhaps millions of jobs. The luckier coffee farmers with enough capital to invest in technology and in marketing top-quality blends for the growing niche market of specialty coffees, are surviving and occasionally even thriving.“http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ update.html - Cached
The crisis brewing in the coffee world. - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada
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„In fact, coffee is the second most important raw material in commercial volume, following oil. Coffee production employs 25 million people working in a small-scale family economy, where the entire farming production process is virtually done by hand, demanding a delicacy and expertise passed down by ancestral tradition. But today, behind every cup there is a story of poverty and death for coffee farmers in countries held hostage by blind market forces. On average, coffee is priced at US$1.10 per kilogram, even though production cost is more than $1.76 per kilogram.“http://www.coffeecrew.com/articles/.../ the-crisis-brewing-in-the-coffee-world..html - Cached
Vietnam: Silent Global Coffee Power (INeedCoffee.com)
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„Nearly all coffee grown in Vietnam is of the Robusta variety, one of the two principal species of coffee grown in the world, the other being Arabica. CoffeeResearch.org estimates that Robusta consists of less than one-fourth of the world's coffee production, and describes it as "more robust than the Arabica plants, but produces an inferior tasting beverage with a higher caffeine content." Coffee connoisseurs tend to agree with this assessment of Robusta as a standalone coffee, although allotting that is has its place in certain blends, especially in espresso.“http://www.ineedcoffee.com/02/04/vietnam/ - Cached
Tips on Coffee - New Complete Coffee Book: A Gourmet Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Cooking
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„Covering the latest in the coffee craze, it includes dozens of recipes for every coffee drink imaginable, from the sternly efficient Espresso (the rocket fuel of coffees) to the indulgent Cappuccino Borgia Milkshake. Author Sara Perry gives us the 411 on coffee history, production, and lore. If that weren’t enough, she adds 40 recipes for delicious, internationally inspired treats (both sweets and savories) using coffee as a main ingredient. Paired with smart-looking photographs, this is a handsome exploration of a precious commodity and the hundreds of ways to enjoy it.“http://www.tips-on-coffee.com/ print_version.php?s=5395 - Cached
Indian coffee board- monthly magazine- Cover Story - Economic Incentives Required for Preserving and Enhancing Bio Diversity in Coffee Plantations
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„The birds feed on the fruits of the trees, control the insect, rodent and snail population on the estate and their dropping enrich the soil. Several western countries with their growing "Green Consciousness" are encouraging production of ecologically, friendly "Shade Coffee". Growers of coffee situated in the western hemisphere are paid a high premium for their coffees, which are produced as "Shade Coffee". Several producing countries in the western hemisphere are now beginning to produce "Shade Coffee" to take advantage of the economic incentives offered to them.“http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/2004/nov/ cover_story2.html - Cached
BBC NEWS | Business | East African coffee growers fight back
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„It echoes the French system of protecting high-value wines by banning imitators. Fred Kawuma, executive director of the Eastern Africa Fine Coffee Association (EAFCA) told the BBC's World Business Report they want to increase production of quality coffees to capture more of the quality market. "We want to help farmers who have the privilege of living in the regions where this coffee is produced to take advantage of the market," Mr Kawuma said. Cheap cup The value of coffee has plummeted because of oversupply and many growers earn less than half what they did in the late 1990s.“http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2225803.stm - Cached
Indian coffee board- monthly magazine- Coffee World Economy
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„Essentially the imbalance in the market was caused by excessive new planting of coffee in the mid 1990s following a price rise caused by a frost in Brazilian coffee areas in 1994. Subsequently Brazil has been able to maintain high levels of production with the help of a continued depreciation of the local currency against the dollar while Vietnam's production has also increased substantially, mainly because production costs are very low as a result of high yields arising from intensive care of coffee trees coupled with substantial use of fertilizers.“http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/2004/oct/ coffee_world.html - Cached
Café de Colombia - QUALITY OF LIFE
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„The Federation is committed to pursuing a total quality program in which the responsibility to protect and promote coffee quality is shared by both Colombian Coffee growers and Colombian Coffee institutions. To promote a quality distinction from other origins, the Federation has developed comprehensive programs to set, maintain, and monitor minimum quality standards for coffee exported both by the Federation and by independent exporters, as well as to promote excellence at every stage of the production and processing of Colombian Coffee.“http://www.juanvaldez.com/menu/advertising/ more_quality.html - Cached
Fairtrade | About Fairtrade | Frequently asked questions
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„Oversupply is usually a result of coffee growers increasing production in the brief periods when prices are high. However, it is clear that the recent surge in global coffee production, and consequent low prices, is largely a result of government agricultural export policies in Vietnam and large-scale farm expansion in Brazil. Paradoxically, in an attempt to compensate for lower prices, many small-scale farmers dependent on coffee will increase output at the expense of quality.“http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/about_faq.htm - Cached
„Currently certifying coffee in El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Costa Rica, the Rainforest Alliance and its network of regional partners are educating coffee buyers, roasters, and green consumers on the environmental and social issues surrounding coffee production. The Rainforest Alliance and its partners send out auditors who work with farmers to incorporate better social and environmental conditions over time, in areas such as ecosystem and wildlife conservation, labor practices and community relations, reduction of chemical use, and waste management.“http://www.aboutcoffee.net/ 2002_07_28_bcearc.html - Cached
Tea & Coffee 11/01 - Trends on German Coffee Market Coffee Shops Gaining Ground
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„Vietnam, once a newcomer to the club, has meanwhile reached the state of a mass exporter. Today the volume of their coffee production has already reached that of the world’s second largest producer, Colombia. And while today 95% of the Vietnam production accounts for the low paid Robustas, plans are to massively extend the growing areas for better paid Arabicas, thus adding to the current overproduction. There are possibilities, though, to develop new markets, especially in China, and to boost sales in the traditional consuming countries by new marketing strategies.“http://www.teaandcoffee.net/1101/retail.htm - Cached
CoffeeGeek - Bean There, Roasted That, Part One
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„ Originally native to the highlands of Ethiopia, coffee has spread, with the help of man, until it is now grown in almost every area of the globe that has a favourable climate. The better coffees usually come from high in mountainous areas and are hand picked, making coffee production very labour intensive. Each growing region produces a variety of coffees each with their own tastes. Different varietals, different processing methods and even which specific farm the coffee is from can make it unique from others.“http://www.coffeegeek.com/opinions/terrym/ 12-31-2001 - Cached
Coffee by Country | Page 1
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„At one time, Venezuela ranked close to Colombia in coffee production, but in the 1960s and 70s, as petroleum turned Venezuela into the richest country in South America, coffee was relegated to the economic back burner. Today Venezuela produces less than one percent of the world's coffee, and most of it is drunk by the Venezuelans themselves. Now that petroleum has failed to bring lasting prosperity, the Venezuelan government is attempting to promote coffee growing and exporting again as a means of diversifying and stabilizing its economy.“http://www.lucidcafe.com/bycountry.html - Cached
„At one time, Venezuela ranked close toColombia in coffee production, but in the 1960s and 70s, as petroleum turned Venezuelainto the richest country in South America, coffee was relegated to the economic backburner. Today Venezuela produces less than one percent of the world's coffee, and most ofit is drunk by the Venezuelans themselves. Now that petroleum has failed to bring lastingprosperity, the Venezuelan government is attempting to promote coffee growing andexporting again as a means of diversifying and stabilizing its economy.“http://www.koffeekorner.com/southamerica.htm - Cached
Tea & Coffee 09/01 - Cuba: A Once-Proud Coffee Industry Falls On Hard Times
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„In 1962, thanks to agricultural and industrial improvements, Cuba’s coffee industry achieved a yield of 316.6 pounds per acre, its highest ever. Unfortunately for Cuba, the Marxist revolution that swept Castro into power occurred at a time when coffee production was at its peak. During the 1950s, the industry’s average rate of growth was 1.7% a year, in spite of a poor harvest in 1958 that was most likely related to the escalation of guerrilla activity by Castro’s band of revolutionaries in the Sierra Maestra, Cuba’s principal coffee-growing area.“http://www.teaandcoffee.net/0901/special.htm - Cached
„At its 13th annual gala, the Rainforest Alliance will honor seven outstanding leaders in the coffee industry who have been instrumental in guiding the sustainable coffee movement. As the coffee industry suffers from a unprecedented crisis brought on by a glut in the market that is affecting the livelihoods of thousands of coffee workers worldwide, these visionary individuals and companies have been committed to making coffee production environmentally, socially and economically sound.“http://www.aboutcoffee.net/ 2003_04_27_bcearc.html - Cached
Virtual Coffee: Virtual Gallery
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„The creator and host of the program, Guided CoffeeDiscoveries, has implemented this educational program in Guatemala with two primaryaspects. The first is to bring small groups of coffee professionals to a working Finca(farm) and allow participants to immerse themselves in coffee production from seed tocup. The second aspect has to do with the culture of the coffee-producing country. Thisincludes exploration of areas including Panajachel, Antigua and the markets ofChichicastenango.“http://www.virtualcoffee.com/may/gallery.html - Cached
BSCA - Brazil Specialty Coffee Association
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„The objective is to attract to Brazil the coffee sector executives, opinion makers and decision-makers, who approach coffee a drink associated with pleasure and status, because they are the executives who establish the trends and the marketing standards. There is nothing more exciting than learning the production and quality of the Brazilian coffees in loco. The plan is to promote technical and commercial visits of foreign buyers to regions and farms that produce specialty coffees.“http://www.bsca.com.br/strategies.php?lang=en - Cached
Lutherans Pursue Good Coffee, Fairly - Fair Trade Coffee Project - Lutheran World Relief
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„By choosing fairly traded coffee over conventionally traded coffee, Lutherans ensure that the farmers, who grew those beans, are "guaranteed a fair price for their crop which will cover the cost of production as well as provide income necessary for their most basic human needs -- food, shelter, education and health care," Meier said. "It maintains the dignity of the farmer by giving them the means by which to earn a living rather than rely on charity and aid which is not a sustainable way to live."“http://www.lwr.org/coffee/elcanr.asp - Cached
„However, the region in Kona known as the "coffee belt" (1,000 to 2,500 feet in elevation) provides perfect coffee growing conditions for coffee, and this area has, for over 150 years, produced some of the world's finest coffee. With a limited amount of acreage available for coffee production, and a market perception developed over many years, people continue to be willing to pay a higher price to get Kona coffee.“http://www.hawaiicoffeeassoc.org/questions.htm - Cached
International Coffee Organization
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„'The level of Brazilian production in crop year 2003-4 will create a situation in which world production will be below world consumption for the first time since 1997-8,' says Néstor Osorio of Colombia, executive director of the London-based ICO which runs the International Coffee Agreement between exporting and importing countries. Prospects for the 2004-5 crop year, beginning next month, are modest: official Brazilian estimates put the figure at around 35.8 million bags.“http://www.ico.org/ed/observer.htm - Cached
Tips on Coffee - The history of coffee
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„The crop first became popular in Arabia around the 13th century, its popularity probably enhanced by Islam's prohibition against alcoholic beverages. Before 1600, coffee production was a jealously guarded secret, and fertile beans were not found outside Arabia. Sometime after 1600, coffee trees were grown in India, possibly due to smuggling of fertile beans. Around 1650, coffee importation into England began and coffeehouses opened in Oxford and London.“http://www.tips-on-coffee.com/ print_version.php?s=27 - Cached
Tea & Coffee 12/00 - World News
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„LONDON, ENGLAND - India will not join the coffee retention plan proposed by the Association of Coffee Producing Countries (ACPC) until they know whether Indonesia and Vietnam will follow the scheme as well, reports the Financial Times. India, which exports 80% of its coffee production, is watching the Asian countries’ moves before committing itself under this proposal to hold back 20% of exportable surplus as a price stimulating initiative, reports the Financial Times.“http://www.teaandcoffee.net/1200/world.htm - Cached
„In its desire to protect the environment, Costa Rica has carefully tended the soils and climate that are best suited to coffee production. As Costa Rica's soils have been enriched by volcanic ash, they contain a slight degree of tropical acidity. They are also rich in organic matter, which makes for good distribution of the coffee plant's root system, enabling them to retain humidity and facilitating oxygenation.“http://www.icafe.go.cr/icafe/ cafe_costarica_eng.htm - Cached
View topic - help on coffeeshop ideas - Coffee Forum
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„Shot in Guatemala, Brazil, Kona and Ethiopia, The The Passionate Harvest takes a detailed look at the inner workings of the diverse processes involved in coffee production, emphasizing the enormous amount of effort and care required to produce quality coffee, and highlighting some of the issues and decision points that affect final cup quality and character. This video is a co-production by Bruce Milletto and Kenneth Davids, two industry experts.“http://www.coffeeforums.com/ viewtopic.php?t=1166 - Cached
International Coffee Organization
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„Mr. Osorio gave a presentation outlining the negative impact of low prices on producing countries, and stressed the need to find ways to restore balance to the world coffee economy and to ensure that coffee production did not continue to entail losses for coffee growers. He emphasized the importance of continuing efforts to improve quality and promote consumption of coffee around the world. Mrs.“http://www.ico.org/ed/mis04.htm - Cached
BSCA - Brazil Specialty Coffee Association
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„Coffee production is an important social and economic component, because its value is well beyond the financial amounts directly involved in it. Coffee production represents generating jobs, which by its nature tend to settle workers in the agricultural areas where they come from. However, the adequate production commercialization is very important to guarantee the producing sector's sustainability and competitivity.“http://www.bsca.com.br/plan.php?lang=en - Cached
Shade Coffee at the Altar of Sacrifice (INeedCoffee.com)
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„Today, the situation is very different. The global crisis of plummeting price realizations below the average cost of production, over the last four years has taken coffee growers to the brink of disaster. Costs had been cut to the bone, but the future is bleak. Consecutive droughts, high pest and disease incidence, and non-availability of credit flow has forced traditional coffee farmers to abandon their estates and in many cases sell their farms at a distress price.“http://www.ineedcoffee.com/04/shadecoffee/ print.asp - Cached
Transfair USA | Press Releases
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„Representing the cooperative in Ethiopia will be Tadesse Meskela, general manager of Oromia, which is comprised of 23,691 members. Premiums from sales of Fair Trade Certified coffees have enabled the co-op to provide educational workshops on coffee production and technical assistance, equipment purchases and methods of cultivating food crops such as citrus and bananas among coffee bushes.“http://www.transfairusa.org/content/about/ pr_040401.php - Cached
„Coffee production is nothing new to the farmers of this region. “Recruited” since the arrival of the plantations in the early 1900s as poorly paid hired hands during the harvest, they learned about production and processing, and the wealth that coffee had made for a fortunate few. Soon, seeds began trickling back to the Highland communities of Chiapas.“http://www.cooperativecoffees.com/producers/mexico/ mayavinic.html - Cached
BSCA - Brazil Specialty Coffee Association
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„In a country the size of Brazil, with a multi-million bag coffee production that provides income for over 10 million people, it is not easy to find the finest coffees. BSCA has hand-picked its members among the most quality conscious coffee growers in Brazil to create a group of superb farms that offer only a selected fraction of their production as top quality specialty coffees.“http://www.bsca.com.br/about.php?lang=en - Cached
„CEPCO's main goals include confronting the coffee crisis collectively as well as constructing a permanent organization of small coffee producers with the ability to resolve the needs of its members. In order to help its members develop economic security, CEPCO focusses on improving the coffee production and processing techniques of its members, as well as developing marketing strategies for coffee sales.“http://www.equalexchange.com/partners/ mexico.html - Cached
„At first only a few coffee growers were concerned about protecting the environment, but as Costa Ricans became more aware of ecological issues, and being a people who strongly believe that they have a duty to care for the planet, more and more coffee producers and processors joined forces to ensure that coffee production does not damage the environment.“http://www.icafe.go.cr/icafe/ ecoamigable_eng.htm - Cached
Equal Exchange - Fair Trade Coffee Project - Lutheran World Relief
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„Farmers are guaranteed a fair price, which includes a guaranteed minimum price of $1.26 per pound, $1.41 for organic coffee. For reference, the current world market price for arabica coffee is just 61 cents - well below the estimated cost of production for small-scale coffee farmers. Much of this is paid in advance as credit. In 2000 we paid more than $450,000 in above market premiums to small-scale farmers.“http://www.lwr.org/coffee/equal.asp - Cached
„I'd like for us to return to cupping for a moment. Before, I mentioned how it is important for the production roaster to take part in the cuppings that decide which coffees will be purchased, and how they will be roasted. I would imagine that this is already fairly common practice. One more thing I want to stress along those same lines is the continued cupping of coffees well after you have initially decided on their roast levels.“http://www.freshcup.com/apr04_roastersrealm.htm - Cached
„Farms average just 3 acres and only a handful have 50 or more acres. Total Kona coffee acreage is over 2,000 acres and production exceeds 2.0 million pounds in most years. Most of Kona production grades Prime or better, because hand cultivated, hand harvested Typica variety accounts for most Kona production. Kona’s rich tradition and excellent coffee continues to increase demand.“http://www.hawaiicoffeeassoc.org/kona.htm - Cached
Coffee Kids | How You Can Help | Disaster Relief
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„The fund has also made a policy decision not to utilize relief funds for the reconstruction of any coffee production and processing infrastructure. This will be addressed under separate funding that is anticipated to be made available, by European financial institutions currently supporting the Aceh Sustainable Coffee Program.“http://www.coffeekids.org/help/emergency.htm - Cached
BBC NEWS | Business | Why cheap beans don't make cheap coffee
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„In other words, coffee is a cyclical crop. Are there other factors that influence the level of world coffee production? Sometimes storms, a late frost, crop disease, war, exchange rate fluctuations or other unpredictable events can force coffee farmers out of business. While at other times, centralised political decisions to produce more or less will affect output levels.“http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1307081.stm - Cached
Coffee by Country | Page 2
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„The Dutch planted the first arabica trees in Java early in coffee history, and before the rust disease virtually wiped out the industry, Java led the world in coffee production. Most of this early acreage has been replaced by disease-resistant robusta, but, under the sponsorship of the Indonesian government, arabica has made a modest comeback on several of the old estates originally established by the Dutch.“http://www.lucidcafe.com/bycountry2.html - Cached
„The Dutch planted the first arabica trees inJava early in coffee history, and before the rust disease virtually wiped out theindustry, Java led the world in coffee production. Most of this early acreage has beenreplaced by disease-resistant robusta, but, under the sponsorship of the Indonesiangovernment, arabica has made a modest comeback on several of the old estates originallyestablished by the Dutch.“http://www.koffeekorner.com/asiapacific.htm - Cached
India coffee - Indian Coffee, monthly magazine published by the Coffee Board, online edition
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„For the healthy economic level of coffee production one need to supply all the essential nutrients so that they are not deficient in soil as well as in plant tissues. The coffee plant requirement of major nutrients (NPK), secondary nutrients [Ca, Mg and S(now a days considered as major nutrient)] as well as micro-nutrients (Cl, Mn, Zn, B, Fe, Cu and Mo) should be well understood through soil tests“http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/ archives.html - Cached
Global Exchange : Starbucks Coffee in Mexico, new controversy
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„The critics of this campaign, like Deborah James, director of fair trade of the US based NGO, Global Exchange, states that Starbucks is not trying enough. It was estimated that the world coffee production would increase in a 10.8% in the next harvest cycle (2002-2003) to reach 124 million bags (64Kg each). As a result, there will be more products in the global market, so the prices for the producers will lower once more.“http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/ 326.html - Cached
„He also noted Vietnam’s success in growing coffee. Carlos Brando of P&A Marketing International, Brazil then began to discuss Brazil’s success in coffee production. He noted Brazil was a pioneer in innovations on production, giving high tech access to even the smallest of growers. Brazil increased production by 50 million bags in one year.“http://info.worldbank.org/etools/bspan/ presentationview.asp?pid=1111&eid=570 - Cached
International Coffee Organization
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„On top of that, world stocks amount to some 40 million bags. Coffee production has been rising at an average annual rate of 3.6%, but demand has been increasing by only 1.5%. At the origin of this coffee glut lies the rapid expansion of production in Vietnam and new plantations in Brazil, which is harvesting a record crop in the current season.“http://www.ico.org/crisis/main.htm - Cached
Fair Trade Coffee Klatching (INeedCoffee.com)
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„On the economic side, the vulnerability of small coffee producers to multinational market manipulation relative to accessing conventional food production and distribution systems has made coffee a natural commodity for experimentation in the creation of sustainable alternative food trading systems. Fair Trade is one such alternative system, and, to date, perhaps the most successful.“http://www.ineedcoffee.com/01/08/klatching/ - Cached
International Coffee Organization
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„Members undertake to provide such information as the Council considers necessary for its operation, including regular statistical reports on coffee production, production trends, exports and imports, distribution, consumption, stocks, prices, and taxation. The Executive Director keeps the Council informed of compliance by Members with these requirements.“http://www.ico.org/libser/gloss.htm - Cached
JAMA -- COFFEE AS A BEVERAGE: ITS DELETERIOUS EFFECTS ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM., January 24, 2001, 285 (4): 384
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„From 1892 till 1896 the average importation of coffee into this country had been 597, 484, 217 p