When Mild Arabica prices crept to almost US$3 a pound last year, roasters scrambled to find more affordable alternatives. For many, the solution came in the form
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Poland’s coffee market heats up
Recently published data suggests that coffee is increasingly gaining ground in the local Polish market. In 2011, the coffee market was estimated to be worth about US$950
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Dutch coffee dreams: The Netherlands’ rising coffee scene
The coffee trade is nothing new to the Dutch. Dating back to the 17th century, the Netherlands has a long history in the coffee trade, with the
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Guatemala’s quality equation to increase production levels
It takes several hours, driving along narrow windy mountainous roads, to reach Guatemalan coffee farms. They only start to undefined
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Eastern Promises: Kenya’s plans to value-add to coffee with foreign investments
Among the few seeming certainties as the Olympics got underway in London in July was that the Kenyan national anthem would be among the most frequently
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Shift and growth in coffee consumption
When the US economic crisis hit in late 2008, many were quick to predict that coffee consumption would suffer. Four years later, those predictions have mostly proven
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Microcredit’s impact in coffee growing communities
In 2001, Cinthia Maribel Larreatigue Herrera was living in the province of San Ignacio in northern Peru, surrounded by poverty. For coffee farming families like hers,
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Brazil’s guessing game: The future of the world’s largest coffee producer
Since coffee futures first started trading on the New York market in 1882, the size of Brazil’s harvest has been the key instigator of speculation. It’s no
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F1 Hybrid coffee finds first commercial home under Starbucks Reserve label
The birth of the F1 Hybrid coffee variety is giving Nicaraguan coffee growers a new reason to be confident about the future of production.','none',' For the first
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Struggling to recover: Colombia’s Mitaca report
Colombian coffee producers continue to cope with the damaging effects of climate change. The 2011-12 coffee harvest shows the potential to become the lowest crop in
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