Coffee and Fair Trade

Facing the world coffee price crisis, fair trade appears as a means to overcome the very difficult situation a million primarily small Latin American producers. Coffee producing countries are hard hit by the global coffee prices crisis due to overproduction Brazilian and Vietnamese. Faced with this crisis, ecology and fair trade seen as a means to remedy the very problematic situation of a million little essentially Latin American producers, according...

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Focus on: The culture of coffee

Today we will look at the culture of coffee and the 2 main varieties most consumed in the world. There are no less than 73 types of coffee. Some are not edible, easily domesticated or too fragile to intensive cultivation demanded our consumption. The only two are marketed: Arabica and Robusta. The Arabica type Arabica has about 200 varieties, it grows at an altitude between 600 and 2000 meters in a tropical environment: temperature of about...

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25 spoons of sugar in some beverages from Starbucks!

The British NGO Action on Sugar goes to war against the big coffee chains like Starbucks or Costa and calls to reduce the added sugar in their hot drinks.  According to their study, some hot drinks contain up to 25 teaspoons of sugar! By drinking every morning coffee caramel bought in a large coffee chain store, you put your health at risk.  A study by the British NGO Action Sugar produced in the UK and relayed by the British...

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We never drank so much coffee in the world

Coffee consumption has almost doubled in the last 20 years, according to the International Coffee Organization (ICO). Coffee lovers have never been so numerous, according to figures released by the International Coffee Organization (ICO), whose member countries account for 95% of production and 83% of world coffee consumption.  On average, the increase in demand for coffee, "records a constant upward trend of 2.5% per year," said...

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