THE coffee-berry borer is a pesky beetle. It is thought to destroy $500m-worth of unpicked coffee beans a year, thus diminishing the incomes of some 20m farmers. The borer spends most of its life as a larva, buried inside a coffee berry, feeding on the beans within. To do so, it has to defy the […]
ECOM’s own Juan Gabriel Cespedes won the World Championship Cup Tasters competition last month in Sweden. He’s the first winner hailing from Latin American to win the competition, and he won by a clear majority, perfect score of 8/8 sets
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JARDIN, COLOMBIA | BY PETER MURPHY As Colombia cheers a return to its biggest coffee harvest in eight years after beating off a disease epidemic, farmers are running into a potentially more serious problem: a shortage of workers to gather swelling volumes of arabica beans. Some regions have turned to town criers and loudspeaker bus-station […]
Hundreds of farmers in Tanzania are abandoning crops of coffee and cotton due to changes in the local climate. Instead, they’re planting more lucrative vegetables and flowers as temperatures rise and rainfall becomes less predictable. “Coffee beans are no longer as profitable, as my harvests keep on falling,” Ludovick Meela, a farmer from Tanzania’s northern […]
Espresso? Now the International Space Station Is Fully Equipped By ELISABETTA POVOLEDOMAY 4, 2015 Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman in orbit, after brewing the first espresso in space. Credit NASA, via Associated Press ROME — Samantha Cristoforetti had an espresso on Sunday that was out of this world, and she did it in the […]
In one of the more positive developments to affect West Coast ports since the announcement of a tentative coastwide longshore contract on Feb. 20, the Port of Oakland reported Tuesday that vessels which had been by-passing the Northern California port to keep on schedule have mostly returned. “Some vessels that were omitting Oakland have already […]
Despite the February 21 settlement of a bitter labor dispute at West Coast ports between employers and members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), whose members command average wages and benefits of about $1,200 a day, the continuing bottleneck is still causing job and revenue losses across many US industries. Breitbart News had […]
March 18 (Reuters) – An unprecedented drought reduced 2014 coffee production in Brazil, the world’s biggest grower, and stunted tree branch growth for the upcoming 2015/16 crop. German coffee trader Neumann forecast in a March report that Brazil will harvest 45.3 million 60-kg bags of coffee in the harvest that will start in May, according […]
– RTRS 09-Mar-2015 16:53 By Peter Murphy BOGOTA, March 9 (Reuters) – Colombia’s coffee growers are requesting government cash to help cover rising costs after a recent sharp fall in the price of arabica beans, a growers’ representative said on Monday, as discontent resurfaces across Colombia’s farm sector. The Dignidad Cafetera movement, which led protests by […]