 Image by tonx via Flickr In 2008, the Rwanda Coffee Development Authority (Ocir-Cafe) distributed four million coffee tree seedlings to growers in the country in order to boost production and try to meet its ambitious goal of creating $120 million in export receipts by 2011. The plan is to produce 35,000 to 40,000 tonnes of coffee. Despite [...]  Image via Wikipedia In another piece of news about the health benefits of coffee, a Danish study shows that subjects who had reported drinking three to five cups of coffee daily were 65 percent less likely to have developed dementia, compared with those who drank two cups or less. We do wish that the study reports [...]  Image via Wikipedia Here at Get In 2 Coffee, we like to make fun of Starbucks just as much as everyone else. But they can make it awfully hard. For a corporate giant they often display a real committment to improving the world we live in – even if at the same time they don’t always [...]  Image via Wikipedia The world coffee news this week is that coffee futures are on the rise by several percentage points. What this means in normal terms is that traders expect the wholesale price of coffee to go up. That will in turn be passed on to the consumer and we can all expect the price [...]  Image via Wikipedia Angola, one of the many war-battered central African countries, is to invest $150 million back into its own coffee producing industry. In the sixties and seventies Angola was one of the larger coffee producers in Africa, exporting up to 200,000 tonnes of coffee per year. Three years ago there was only one coffee [...]  Image via Wikipedia A new survey by HealthSavers (link goes to a PDF file of the full survey results) shows that, no surprise, Seattle residents consumed the most coffee among US cities. Interestingly, the main survey is about caffeine intake – and by that measurement Tampa wins. The other common caffeinated beverages in the study are [...]  Image via Wikipedia By now you have probably encountered the term ’shade-grown’ coffee, even at Starbucks. So what is it and why should you care? Does coffee grown out of the sun taste better and how can that be if coffee only grows in hot tropical places? Well, ’shade-grown’ is partially a misnomer. It really means coffee [...] |
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