When something like the Iran war causes the price of energy to go up the effect ricochets through the economy. The coffee sector is not immune from such effects. So, what do higher energy prices do to the price and quality of coffee? The effects range from higher transportation costs to greater expense in roasting […]
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Coffee is grown across the world in the Coffee Belt which stretches around the equator and extends to the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. While there are excellent agricultural areas in areas beyond the coffee belt temperatures are generally not conducive to growing a commercially profitable crop of coffee. In fact, if […]
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The coffee belt straddling the equator includes more than ninety countries. More than a third of these nations are in the continent of Africa. Africa produces about an eighth of the world’s coffee with Ethiopia and Uganda being the leaders in African coffee production. A unique feature of much of African coffee is that it […]
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Ethiopia is the country where coffee came from before it spread across the world. While many coffee varieties have occurred naturally or been developed intentionally in coffee growing countries worldwide, Ethiopia has thousands of unique varieties that evolved naturally. How many types of coffee occur in Ethiopia and how many types of coffee does Ethiopia […]
Read More...As we have reported numerous times, drinking coffee has a lot of health benefits from a reduction of the incidence of type II diabetes to less heart disease to reduced incidences of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. Recent evidence from Massachusetts General Brigham show how coffee protects your brain. Results of Long Term Study of Health, […]
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