It has become economic shorthand for the shift of developed nations towards a more service-based economy, but the term “barista economy”, and the trend it represents,
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Fair Trade coffee tourism
A UK-based social enterprise that specialises in Latin American ecotourism has partnered with well-known Fairtrade coffee brand Cafédirect Producers’ Foundation (CPF), to launch a range of
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Jacobs Douwe Egberts aims for global domination
A joint venture between DE Master Blenders and Mondelēz International looks set to shake up the global coffee landscape.
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Ethiopia’s forgotten Harar region returns to specialty coffee market
With coffee farms carved out of dense rocks in highlands so dry that from the outside they appear to be part of the Sahara dessert, eastern
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Dangerous grounds
The world’s youngest country is infamous for conflict and oil. Decades of war in South Sudan has killed tens of thousand undefined
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Growing the Chinese market
In 2012, mainland China was listed by the International Coffee Organization (ICO) as the sixth-largest consumer of coffee in East and Southeast Asia, getting through more
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Growing peace
Around the pool at a hostel in Cartagena, Colombia, an argument is developing on the legitimacy of Netflix crime drama Narcos. Narcos tells the story of the
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Ground coffee set to dominate
The popularity of ground coffee in Russia is steadily growing and is set to overtake the popularity of instant by the end of 2015, according to
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Vietnam’s harvest size curbed by old coffee trees
Vietnam’s coffee farmers are facing an increasingly difficult challenge when it comes to keeping up with their reputation of being the world’s most efficient growers. With
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Purpose before profit
Food service operators know getting customers through the door takes more than the secret sauce. Consumers typically consider quality, convenience, service and value as the main decision-making
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