Technology

Planning for the worst in the world’s coffee origins

What state will the world’s coffee plantations be in 10, 20 or 50 years from now? Drought stricken? Disease riddled? Or simply blossoming? Luis Fernando Samper, Chief Communications and
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Staff Writer08/05/2012, 11:50 am11/09/2019

The power of the crop: How coffee farms could enhance mammal biodiversity

Doctoral student Amanda Caudill says coffee is one crop that shows great promise in agroforestry. “The way in which coffee is grown and managed can have a
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Staff Writer28/03/2012, 5:44 pm11/09/2019

The coffee health debate

In June last year, one research story was picked up by news sources spreading across Europe, Asia and the Americas, and t undefined
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Staff Writer28/03/2012, 5:20 pm11/09/2019

Washed up: reducing the harmful effects of waste water from coffee production

Wind the clock back a few decades, and Ken Calvert, a retired Energy and Wastes Treatment Engineer, says it wouldn’t be uncommon to find black water
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Staff Writer28/03/2012, 5:02 pm11/09/2019

VST Inc.‘s Vince Fedele’s coffee quality hypothesis

In January 1999, late Apple CEO Steve Jobs was set to present to an audience on the advent of FireWire. The device was one of the
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Staff Writer20/01/2012, 1:54 pm11/09/2019

Goglio leads the pack: a history of innovation in packaging

Over the years, coffee bags have evolved from simple paper structures, offering little to no protection from moisture, light and oxygen, to today’s high barrier films
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Staff Writer20/01/2012, 11:58 am11/09/2019

A coffee roaster developed for farmers

Dr Ruel M. Mojica believes his latest academic work is set to change the livelihoods of Filipino coffee farmers. In his previous studies on the coffee chain,
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Staff Writer25/11/2011, 11:29 am11/09/2019

Coffee technology transfer: CIRAD Ecom public-private partnership

Story by Dr Christophe Montagnon, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche pour le Développement For the last 50 years, coffee productivity measured as the weight of green coffee
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Staff Writer25/11/2011, 10:07 am11/09/2019