Saturday 29 August 2015

Demand for coffee can create ecological, economic rift with poorer nations

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Demand for coffee can create ecological, economic rift with poorer nations
Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 25, 2015 - The explosion in worldwide coffee consumption in the past two decades has generally not benefitted farmers of coffee beans in poorer nations along the equator. A University of Kansas (KU) researcher studying trade and globalization has found that the shift to "technified" coffee production in the 1970s and 1980s has created harsher economic and ecological consequences for heavy coffee-prod ... more


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