Coffee and Cafés of Amsterdam (#)

„In 1714, Jean de la Roque writing of the excitement caused by the exhibition of a coffee tree at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris spoke of the Dutch gardener who tended it: "He told us that there was a great tree of this species in the Hortus Botanicus of Amsterdam whose height was equal to the second story of a house and proportionally as large. That great tree came originally from Arabia, brought from there very young and transported to Java. After some stay, it came at last to Holland where it grew to perfection.“

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Virtual Coffee: The Songbird Foundation Project (#)

„The agri-forests where coffee has traditionally been grown serve as replacements for the original Neo-tropical rainforests. By growing coffee under a canopy of diverse trees, the soil and water benefit, the birds and other creatures dependent on the shade habitat benefit, and, ultimately, people benefit from not having their resources destroyed and poisoned through over use of chemicals. (Much of the land we saw slipping away in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch was land denuded of trees.) By educating the coffee consumers about the long-term benefits of sustainably grown coffee, they come to realize the importance of coffee in protecting the environment. This empowers them and awakens in them an understanding that environmental issues are essentially issues of consumption.“

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Virtual Coffee: Feature Articles (#)

„In the Sustainable Coffee Survey report, nearly 45 percent of the companies claiming to carry shade-grown coffee did not even know who their shade-certifying agency was. Many importers, roasters and retailers add to the confusion by selling "verified shade" coffee, which comes from plantations that have not been certified by Eco-OK or SMBC but have been visited by someone—often an importer—who, without scientific guidelines, checks to make sure shade trees are present on the farms. Most people seem to agree that certified-shade is the clearest way to convey the concept in the marketplace and provide a transparent method of ensuring validity of shade claims.“

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Tips on Coffee - Coffee Producing Countries (#)

„Today approximately 100,000 small farms generate most Mexican coffee, and most of the beans come from the south. Mexico is the largest source of U.S. coffee imports.Notable Beans: Altura, Liquidambar MS, Pluma Coixtepec Ethiopia (3.8 million bags) The natural home of the arabica tree and the setting for most of coffee’s origin legends, Ethiopia is Africa’s top arabica exporter and leads the continent in domestic consumption. About 12 million Ethiopians make their living from coffee, whose name is said to be a derivation of “Kaffa,” the name of an Ethiopian province. Notable Beans: Harrar, Sidamo, Yirgacheffe India (3.8 million bags) According to legend, India is the birthplace of coffee cultivation east of Arabia.“

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Coffee Berry Disease (#)

„Coffee berry disease was first discovered in Kenya in 1920 and is caused by the virulent strain of Colletotrichum coffeanum (Mitchell, 85 ).  The fungus lives in the bark of the coffee tree and produces spores which attack the coffee cherries.  Spraying has been determined to be the best way to avoid the coffee berry disease.  Captafol and copper-based fungicides have been effective.  The Kenyan coffee hybrid Ruiru 11 is resistant to both coffee berry disease and leaf rust.“

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What Goes Up Might Come Down? (#)

„Regarding that supply, both the planting and harvesting schedules chosen by coffee farmers will affect the availability of green beans in the marketplace. A tree planted by a farmer today will not yield a crop for another three to five years, so coffee growers have to be both agronomist and seer. It stands to reason that coffee growers want to plant only to the extent that their harvest will be a profitable one, so tracking the trends in coffee consumption as well as the global coffee yields become key considerations when deciding how much to plant.“

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Tea & Coffee 06/03 - Vietnamese Coffee and the Plight of the Montagnards (#)

„The Vietnamese programs sounded good on paper. In 1992 the “Regreening of the Barren Hills Program” commenced, to reforest denuded areas (blamed on Montagnard rotational farming), followed by a 1998 “Five Million Hectare Reforestation Program.” Much of this “reforestation” involved planting coffee trees, almost all of them Robusta. It is unclear exactly how the phenomenal growth in Vietnamese coffee cultivation was funded, since no one now wishes to take responsibility for it. It appears to have been a combination of money from the Vietnamese agricultural bank, the World Bank, French, German, and Swiss governmental agencies, and programs sponsored by Nestle, Kraft, Sara Lee, and several coffee trading firms.“

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Coffee: A Celebration of Diversity 278 Pages - The Best Coffee Book Ever! (#)

„The next chapter on History is the concise story of coffee from it's discovery and spread to the West. 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.“

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Kopi Luwak (#)

„On these Indonesian islands, there's a small marsupial called the paradoxurus, a tree-dwelling animal that is part of the sibet family. Long regarded by the natives as pests, they climb among the coffee trees eating only the ripest, reddest coffee cherries. Who knows who first thought of it, or how or why, but what these animals eat they must also digest and eventually excrete. Some brazen or desparate -- or simply lazy -- local gathered the beans, which come through the digestion process fairly intact, still wrapped in layers of the cherries' mucilage.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„Since we have come to associate the word coffee so absolutely with a hot, aromatic brown liquid, some may find it hard to believe that human beings waited for several hundred years before concluding that the most effective way to get what they wanted from the coffee tree was to roast the dried kernel of the fruit, grind it, and combine the resulting powder with hot water to make a beverage. The alternative solutions are many, and some apparently still survive as part of the cuisines of Africa and Asia. The berries can be fermented to make a wine, for example, or the leaves and flowers cured and steeped in boiling water to produce a coffee tea.“

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Indian coffee board- monthly magazine- Cover Story - Economic Incentives Required for Preserving and Enhancing Bio Diversity in Coffee Plantations (#)

„The upper canopy consists of permanent shade trees like Silver Oak (Grevillia Robusta), Jack fruit, Jumblum, Wildfig, Red cedar, Albezzia and a variety of other naturally occurring Jungle tree species and other exotic jungle trees. On an average there will be around 100 permanent shade trees per acre in a coffee estate. Beside providing shade to the coffee plants the leaves of the trees serve as an important source of mulch to improve the humus content of the soil. The trees also serve to protect the top soil from erosion during the monsoon.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„Louis XIV of France, with his insatiable curiosity and love of luxury, was of course by this time an ardent coffee drinker. The Dutch owed him a favor and managed, with great difficulty, to procure him a coffee tree. The tree had originally been obtained at the Arabian port of Mocha, then carried to Java, and finally back across the seas to Holland, from where it was brought overland to Paris. Louis is said to have spent an entire day alone communing with the tree (probably thinking about all the money coffee was going to make for the royal coffers) before turning it over to his botanists.“

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Tips on Coffee - Tips on Coffee Blends (#)

„That is why some coffees are known for full-bodied coffees and others for their deep flavour or aroma. In fact, everything that happens to the Coffee tree, weather conditions throughout the life of the plant, and throughout the growing season altitude; impacts the flavour of the coffee it produces. While the aroma of one may inspire poetry, its flavour may be noon too special; no one coffee will be considered "perfect" by everyone. On this site you will find a brief description of the taste characteristics for the four major coffee growing regions of the world.“

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Coffee History - Learn about coffee... (#)

„FUN COFFEE FACTS The first "coffee break" on the moon took place at 7:27 pm., July 20, 1969. It was three hours after landing and four hours before the historic walk that an astronaut on the Eagle spacecraft radioed Houston control to say, "If you excuse me a minute, I'm going to have a cup of coffee." It takes an entire year for a coffee tree to produce only 1.5 pounds of coffee. This represents approximately 2,000 handpicked cherries to result in one pound of roasted coffee as we know. Coffee became the national drink in 1773.“

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Timeforcoffee.com (#)

„The original Kona coffee was, and still is, grown on small farms above the Pacific on the lower slopes of Mauna Loa. The coffee trees are shaded by a cloud cover that appears regularly most afternoons (the famous "automatic shade"), just in time to protect them from the full devastation of the tropical sun.“

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Supermarket Coffee vs. Specialty Store Coffee (#)

„Many people think coffee grows on conveniently sized 4 foot high bushes because of Juan Valdez and his televised coffee adventures. On the contrary, coffee trees, if left unpruned, can reach up to approximately thirty feet. Coffea Robusta tend to be a hardier, more disease-resistant bean which are less expensive to maintain and produce a higher yield than other commercial beans. Harvesting and drying of the beans is often less careful resulting in off flavors at times due to irregularities in the bean.“

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Melitta in the News (#)

„In the world’s biggest coffee producing regions, there remain a select number of farmers that continue to grow coffee the same way they have for generations. Each coffee tree is planted and nurtured using only environmentally-friendly techniques, harvesting each crop by hand. The coffee from these farms is 100% organic and approved as such by the USDA. These techniques are used to make the three types of Melitta World Harvest Organic Coffees, including Morning Bliss (light roast), Enchanted Evening (dark roast), and Sun & Moon (blend of light and dark roasts).“

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Ten Steps To Coffee - National Coffee Association (#)

„Depending on the variety, it will take approximately 3 or 4 years for the newly planted coffee trees to begin to bear fruit. The fruit, called the coffee cherry, turns a bright, deep red when it is ripe and ready to be harvested.  In most countries, the coffee crop is picked by hand, a labor-intensive and difficult process, though in places like Brazil, where the landscape is relatively flat and the coffee fields immense, the process has been mechanized.  Whether picked by hand or by machine, all coffee is harvested in one of two ways:“

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CRS Fair Trade (#)

„As its name indicates, the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is concerned primarily with the protection of the rare and endangered migratory birds that live in coffee growing regions. The organization works to achieve this goal through a series of rigorous standards governing the density and diversity of both rustic and planted shade trees in coffee growing areas. Since the principal requirements involve measuring the quantity and quality of shade, coffee that meets the standards identified below is also commonly referred to as Certified Shade-Grown coffee.“

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Global Exchange : bingham0899.html (#)

„As traditionally grown, under a canopy of shade trees and amid other vegetation, coffee is an environment-friendly crop. The shade trees fix nitrogen in the soil, fostering the growth of the coffee bushes, and their fallen leaves provide nutrients, further reducing the need for chemical fertilizers. The mixture of vegetation prevents erosion and protects the coffee from harsh weather. In contrast to corn and cattle, which almost always require clear-cutting, coffee can be grown in relative harmony with the rain forest.“

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Buying the best espresso-cappuccino machines - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada (#)

„This is the only way we can do these product profiles. You know what they say: "Coffee does not grow on trees.." Of course, it grows on bushes! Gaggia Classic:Built like a tank, with composite aluminum boiler, brass group and portafilter, three-way solenoid valve and four-choices of finish, the Classic is the Coffee Experts pick for sheer staying power, brute strength and for those that desire their kitchen cafe to be anchored with this cement mixer of a machine. I find the three button Classic, like the Gaggia Baby with similar configuration, very straightforward to use 'out of the box'.“

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Café de Colombia - QUALITY OF LIFE (#)

„Today, coffee trees are cultivated on small farms that spread over 900,000 hectares of mostly shaded mountainous areas, carefully tended by more than 500,000 independent coffee growers, known in Colombia as cafeteros, and their families. Colombian Coffee grows at altitudes ranging from 3,000 to 6,500 feet (1,000 to 2,000 meters), accounting for the coffee’s well-known acidity. The average temperature in these areas is 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) and rainfall is generous, accumulating to approximately 95 inches per year.“

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Global Exchange : pennypacker0397.html (#)

„These refuges are now disappearing all over the tropics, as small holdings are replaced by or absorbed into large, monocropped, chemical-dependent farms. These ecological disasters were made possible by the development in the 1970s of a high-yield coffee tree that flourishes in full sunlight but requires chemical protection from disease. In these "technified" coffee farms, forests are cleared in order to grow coffee in open sun, and high levels of pesticides and fertilizers are applied, killing beneficial insects and micro-organisms and polluting the water.“

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Coffee Universe | World of Coffee (#)

„  Ethiopia Ethiopia is the birthplace of the arabica tree, and wild berries are still harvested by tribes people in its mountains. In Eastern Ethiopia, coffee trees are grown between 5,000 and 6,000 feet on small peasant plots and farms. These coffees may be called longberry Harrar (large bean), shortberry Harrar (smaller bean) or Mocha Harrar (peaberry or single bean). They are all cultivated simply, processed by the traditional dry method, and are no doubt organic.“

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Brazilian Scientists Decode the Coffee Genome - National Coffee Association (#)

„With the information, Brazil hopes to create high-quality coffee trees that are more productive and resilient, increasing their productive life to 30 years from the current 15. Deciphering and utilizing the code will make it possible to develop varieties that increase yield, can tolerate climactic extremes such as drought or frost, and resist attacks of pests currently controlled through pesticides. The government expects the new varieties to benefit the entire coffee production chain, especially small growers, by making technological inclusion available to family farming.“

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Here's Looking at Green Coffee (#)

„As the tree goes through its many cycles of growth and dormancy, flowering and fruiting, many critical needs must be met to ensure a plant that is happy, healthy and wants to make alot of fruit. One coffee tree produces only one pound of roasted coffee per year! The seeds are an encapsulation of all the complexities of the trees, and with over 800 organic constituents that contribute to the cup quality of the beverage, it is 2.5 times more chemically complex than wine.“

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Eco-Friendly Indian Coffee: A Profile (INeedCoffee.com) (#)

„In the bargain, one generation is lost. If the coffee farm or the estate is put under a microscope, a closer and better picture emerges…in its totality, coffee Plantations in India are traditional shade grown coffees, grown naturally, inside a canopy of wild and introduced trees. While growers are environmentally conscious at every step of cultivation, they are also doing a world of good both socially and economically to millions of farmers and allied households. The important point here is that the Plantations constantly evolve.“

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Café Forum | Nicaragua Coffee Companies (#)

„Thank you!   Growers/Processors Managua Agricola Industrial Coffee Grower, Miller and Exporter since 1942 when Don Jacinto started the arduous task of planting the first Coffee Trees. Our Plantations (La Viola and San Martin) have beautiful wooden trees for natural shades and are located in the Rainforest Region with Altitude Range 3,500 feet to 4,500 feet above sea level. The Soil in our plantations gives our Coffee Beans a very distinct acidity, body and aroma.“

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Tips on Coffee - The history of coffee (#)

„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. Coffee planting began in the English colonies, but a disease wiped out the plantations, leading the English to re-plant them with tea instead.“

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Indiacoffee - Indian Coffee, Monthly magazine - Cover Story - Coffee Futures - The Brazilian Juggernaut (#)

„Producers & traders are now anxiously looking at the 2003-04 season as the first chance of a breakthrough where demand may actually be ahead of supply, anticipating a sharp fall in Brazil's production in an "off" year. However, crucial to any estimate of global production is Brazil's production potential given its current coffee tree population of over 5 billion (up from 3 bln in '95). The key question, therefore, is what is the minimum and maximum that Brazil can produce under normal weather conditions, in "on" and "off" years.“

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Coffee around the World... - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada (#)

„Timing is everything .Coffee trees typically bloom after Kona's dry winters and are ready to be picked in the fall. The North and South districts of Kona are the only regions of the Big Island that can truly be called "Kona Coffee" Coffee cherries, hand picked, pulped, dried and hulled are sorted into the following grades: Peaberry, extra fancy, fancy, No.1 and prime. Kona Coffee is sun dried as a rule and roasted according to an assortment of variables.“

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Primer on Shade Grown Coffee (INeedCoffee.com) (#)

„Rustic This style involves clearing out the low level growth in a forest and replacing it with coffee. The more elevated shade trees remain to provide protection to the coffee tree. While this method allows coffee to be grown without the use of chemicals, it does eliminate other wildlife. Traditional Polyculture This involves choosing certain species of trees which will grow alongside the coffee.“

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Global Exchange : Coffee Cooperatives (#)

„Whereas a small farmer in Peru has no access to credit (and thus may be forced into debt to local moneylenders), COCLA's members have access to credit at 12-13%. Farmers use this money to increase plantings of shade trees and coffee trees, invest in tarps and equipment that improve quality, and pay for transporting their coffee to the coop's warehouse. Ninety eight percent of all loans are paid on time, testifying to their efficacy and their member's gratitude.“

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Cafe´ de Colombia - QUALITY (#)

„Cafe´ de Colombia - QUALITY Another aspect of Colombian Coffee that makes it so unique is the country's high quality control standards. It starts in the farm where the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia sends an appointed official to inspect each farm for sanitary conditions, healthy trees and the quality of each harvest. The inspector checks to see if the beans have been washed properly. He looks for adequate bean size, color texture and overall quality.“

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International Coffee Organization (#)

„There is a dual system of production. About 31 percent of the total coffee area (940,000 hectares) is farmed in a traditional, labour intensive, way with unimproved tree varieties. The remainder is cultivated using advanced production methods and improved tree varieties. Many of the advanced or "technified" holdings have closely spaced trees with densities between 4,000 and 6,000 trees per hectare.“

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Tanzania is as close as your coffe cup - Coffee Farmers in Crisis - Fair Trade Coffee Project - Lutheran World Relief (#)

„Coffee farmers rely on income from their coffee harvest to pay school fees for their children. The Umburi Lutheran Secondary School, built in the midst of coffee and banana trees, has seen a steady decline in student enrollment due to falling coffee prices. With a capacity of 320 students, the school currently has only 84 students. “Education is disrupted by lack of funds,” says headmaster Israel Joseph Makia.“

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Indian coffee board- monthly magazine- Cover Story- THE PROBLEM OF COFFEE WHITE STEM BORER AND THE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES (#)

„Growing arabica coffee in India is an agroforestry activity wherein coffee is cultivated under a well maintained tree canopy as shade for the coffee plants. Good overhead shade is a basic requirement for healthy growth of plants in view of the weather conditions prevailing in our coffee tracts. The most important reason why shade needs to be maintained is the build up of stem borer under unshaded conditions.“

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View topic - White coffee - Coffee Forum (#)

„I know that the owner of Aroma Coffee actually buys by tree, meaning he tells the grower to pack coffee specially for him and tells him from which tree in his plantation he wants the coffee to be from. He told me that that is what he does in Bali, However I don’t know if he does that in other areas too. Most of the coffee grown in Indonesia is I believe government related ownership.“

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World Business Archive | BBC World Service (#)

„Caroline Eagles believes the problems have arisen because of the cycles involved in coffee production. "A coffee tree takes about four or five years before it can actually begin production. And so, when you have a high price, everybody plants. But then it takes four or five years for all this new output to come in.“

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CoffeeGeek - Above and Beyond - Grower Relationships (#)

„During the past year, Palmer's spent much of his time forming a cooperative with the family that owns the farm. As part of the agreement, the family will plant a certain number of coffee trees to reinvigorate the farm. "Oscar is going to plant 30,000 trees in the next few months," Palmer says. "After they're planted, my role will be to teach [the family] how to prepare and dry the coffee."“

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It's All About Coffee (#)

„Coffee trees, or bushes, grow primarily in subtropical climates. Coffee beans are the seeds of cherry-sized berries, the fruit of the coffee tree. Coffee is primarily classified in two types - arabica and robusta. Arabian coffees, which make up the bulk of world production, are grown mainly in the tropical highlands of the Western Hemisphere.“

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The Javagirl Goes A-Cupping (#)

„Contestant number two is an Ethiopian Fancy, which comes from Africa. Jay mentions the old legend of the first coffee tree, which came from Ethiopia as well. Peet's also carries Kenyan coffee as well as a Yemeni roast, shipped in from the port of Mocha. This allows Jay to share another old coffee tale, one with which I am not familiar.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„Coffea Arabica.  The earliest cultivated species of coffee tree and still the most widely grown. It produces approximately 70% of the world's coffee, and is dramatically superior in cup quality to the other principal commercial coffee species, Coffea canephora or Robusta .All fine, specialty, and fancy coffees come from Coffea arabica trees. “

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International Coffee Organization (#)

„Coffee is no exception. From the tree to the cup, the various physical characteristics of coffee in its different forms play an important part in the way it is treated and in the design of equipment to process it. Coffee is harvested when its red colour indicates that the appropriate maturity has been reached. Later on, colour is a guide to the degree of roast of the beans.“

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CoffeeGeek - So You Say There's a Coffee Crisis (#)

„Vietnam is not suited for growing high quality Arabica coffee - it is too low in elevation for the most part, and too north of the equator. But robusta, the hardy version of the coffee tree that produces beans that are best described as "rubber burning" when tasting, could grow there, and did. There's good robusta, and not so good robusta - Vietnam had stuff that was just about the worst robusta you could grow.“

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Nicaraguan Partners (#)

„I spent the day hiking with him and April over the mountain and back to my house in San Ramón. The coffee trees are blooming and they smell like jasmine. Parrots, monkeys, and the pink cherry-like blossoms that decorate the madero negros--the landscape if full of vibrant blue-yellow-greens from the 30 minutes of rain that fall at 2am every night as the clouds drift down through the mountains. I feel so blessed to live in such beauty.“

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Tea & Coffee 01/02 - The Plight of Coffee’s Children (#)

„On coffee farms, large and small, the prevalence of children is significant - some playing, others caring for young siblings and still others working alongside their parents. When visiting the fields as a coffee buyer or visitor, one nearly always encounters children beneath the branches of the coffee trees picking the red beans, their nimble hands often outpacing those of their parents.“

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Tanzania is as close as your coffe cup - Coffee Farmers in Crisis - Fair Trade Coffee Project - Lutheran World Relief (#)

„Because Tanzanian coffee farms are very small—average sizes range from ½ to 2 acres, it is important for farmers to use their land wisely. Coffee trees are planted among banana trees, beans and corn. The shade from the banana trees improves the quality of the coffee and the intercropping also enriches the soil.“

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CoffeeKid - What Happened to Maui Moka (#)

„"According to Falconer, a pending deal to save the trees and bring them back to their full production state is in the works with Kauai Coffee Company, and 'pretty much a done deal, except for the lawyers'. The 'deal' consists of Kauai leasing the property with the Red, Yellow and Typica trees, but there was no interest in the tiny 'Maui Moka' bean. Falconer said it was a problematic bean...“

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index (#)

„Unlike most of our partner cooperatives, Coocafé receives all of it members’ coffee as unprocessed cherries — right off the tree. When farmers deliver their coffee, they receive a credit based upon volume rather than weight. And for that reason, Coocafé runs its wet processing plant through the night.“

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Cafe´ de Colombia - GROWING (#)

„When the seedlings grow to about two feet in height, they are transplanted to the plantation where they are carefully cultivated. It takes an average coffee tree approximately three to four years to grow to full size and to blossom. The first fruit appears about six months later. Coffee trees are unique; they bear ripened fruits and flowers at the same time.“

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Fresh Cup Magazine (#)

„Our hosts for the evening are Christina Gonzales, her husband, Rigoberto, and their three sons, José, Luís and Pablo, and we are standing in their small, pristine beneficio, where every year, they skillfully process 150,000 pounds of coffee by hand. The family’s farm is called El Valle, and its well-kept coffee trees blanket 40 hectares of lush land just outside of Antigua.“

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index (#)

„While the cost of production varies widely due to terrain, weather, the farmer's ability and other factors, many Guatemalan growers who got the regular market price say that by the time they paid for fertilizers, maintenance of their coffee trees, harvesting and processing, they lost money.“

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Global Exchange : npr042801.html (#)

„As soon as Nicholas and his two sons have eaten a stack, along with some black beans, they head down the hill into their trees. Each coffee tree is about 12 feet high. They're dense with shiny green leaves and the branches are covered with clusters of bright red berries. The little coffee beans that you'd recognize are hidden inside that red pulp.“

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Cafes of B.C. - Chapter 1 - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada (#)

„well it doesn't exactly grow on trees around here." True enough. The streets of Victoria are not really lined with whole-bean coffee. That would be Seattle. Victoria is the kind of town where you can stagger from one mediocre coffee experience to another, all day long and well into the night and not actually ever cross your own path twice.“

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CBBC Newsround | GLOBALISATION ENVIRONMENTAL | The real cost of coffee (#)

„Gets thrown in rivers causing pollution* Fed to animals Made into cheap supermarket coffee [8] Growing coffee can cause which of these environmental problems? Deforestation Pesticide pollution Soil erosion Water pollution All of these* [9] Clearing trees to grow coffee reduces the number of birds in an area by how much? 27% 57% 97%*“

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INeedCoffee - Non-Commercial Caffeination Information (#)

„The coffee farm is a self contained eco system. Large trees shade smaller trees and the coffee bush in turn shades the soil system from direct sunlight. The biomass accumulated on the forest floor brings about energy transformations and energy exchanges within and between living things and the coffee environment.“

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It's All About Coffee (#)

„The leaves dripped liquid life after the storm the night before. Surely the coffee trees were happy: red and yellow cherries seemed about to burst and this became all the more evident by the sun's rays shining on them. The morning breeze bent the trees and wrapped them in a dance that was amazing in its rythm -a synchronized ballet moving toward the mountains.“

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Facts About Organic Coffee (#)

„Organic farmers utilize biological pest control. They incorporate shaded trees and various other sustainable agricultural tools for the health of their coffee trees. They are moving towards the sustainability of the soil, water and ecosystem they use. Who Benefits?“

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CoffeeKids.org (INeedCoffee.com) (#)

„Did you know that the average coffee tree only produces one pound of finished coffee per year? With all the coffee beans that we consume, we should be conscious of the lives of the farmers that produce this pleasure-giving crop. Unfortunately, their lives are not anywhere near the western standard to which we've grown accustomed.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„Most likely this prevailing cup character derives from variety of coffee tree (most Costa Rica coffee is produced from trees of the straightforward-tasting cultivar Caturra) and sophisticated fruit removal and drying, which eliminates flavor twists and ambiguities that idiosyncratic processing imparts to some other origins.“

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Tips on Coffee - The Coffee Plant (#)

„The genus, Coffea, which the common coffee tree belongs, contains about 25 species. Coffea Arabica is the largest cultivated coffea but other commercially known are Coffea Liberica, Coffea Stenophylla, Coffea Excelsa, and Coffea Canephora (Robusta). By far, Coffea Arabica and Coffea Robusta are the species of coffee plant most commonly cultivated.“

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Global Exchange : Stunted coffee market pushes Ethiopians into drug trade (#)

„An estimated 75 percent of all coffee farmers in the highlands of Hararghe, home to the aromatic Harar coffee, have either uprooted coffee trees to plant khat or are growing both, said Tadesse Meskela, general manager of the Oromiya Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union in the capital, Addis Ababa.“

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Hawaii Coffee Association (#)

„Oahu - The Gathering Place, has over 100 acres of typica trees are situated on the gentle slopes overlooking the spectacular North Shore of Oahu. Coffee trees are planted on both sides of Kam Highway between the towns of Wahiawa and Waialua. Coffee is farmed in the Kona tradition, handpicked, fermented and washed.“

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Coffee Guide - Quiz (#)

„coffee ties with soda products coffee is second only to oil coffee barely outsells athletic shoes coffee falls just behind glitter spray 3. A coffee tree yields:“

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- Coffee Science Information Centre (#)

„Aspergillus niger was an unimportant source. It was also found that there was little infection of coffee cherries while on the tree but infection occurred postharvest, the most likely sources being soil, equipment and drying yard surfaces. Improvements in good agricultural practices have reduced ochratoxin A contamination of coffee.“

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Tanzania is as close as your coffe cup - Coffee Farmers in Crisis - Fair Trade Coffee Project - Lutheran World Relief (#)

„Coffee farming was first introduced to Tanzanians in 1898. The first coffee trees, planted on the Kilema Roman Catholic Mission still produce coffee today. In 1919, the Chagga, the dominant tribe living on Mount Kilimanjaro, began planting coffee as a cash crop.“

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Coffee by Country | Page 2 (#)

„The original Kona coffee was, and still is, grown on small farms above the Pacific on the lower slopes of Mauna Loa. The coffee trees are shaded by a cloud cover that appears regularly most afternoons (the famous "automatic shade"), just in time to protect them from the full devastation of the tropical sun.“

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Java Jive #19 (#)

„Tea is made from the leaves of the tea bush (technically a closely cropped small tree) and can be harvested almost continually year-round. Coffee beans are actually the large seeds of a small berry, and the coffee tree will produce its berries only once a year.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„For example: Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, Kenya AA, or La Minita Costa Rica Tarrazu. However, to follow the California wine analogy more precisely, varietal coffees ought logically to come from a single predominant botanical variety of coffee tree; var. bourbon, for example, or var. typica.“

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View topic - Fair Trade Only...Is it possible? - Coffee Forum (#)

„So why would you not offer world class coffee that is sustainable? Where the heck will we all get coffee from in the next few years if the farmers are all dying from poison, the trees are all cut down and they can't even make enough profit to eat let alone invest back in to the farm?“

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Tea & Coffee 06/01 - What’s Brewing In Specialty Retail? (#)

„Allegro markets their beans as having what they call a “Taste of Place,” because they believe that climate, altitude, soil and vegetation that surround coffee trees - to which they pay extremely close attention - create an environment that influence the taste of the