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Africa’s Plan to Bring Chocolate Profits Home
The $100 billion chocolate industry largely begins in Ivory Coast and Ghana, but farmers there get very little of the revenue. Most goes to European countries where companies turn raw beans into pure profit. African governments and entrepreneurs are now … Continue reading
In 1980, two feuding professors bet on the fate of humanity. Who won? | Aeon Videos
How a $1,000 scholarly bet between a biologist and an economist shifted the way the world understood population growth n 1968, The Population Bomb by the Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich became a bestseller. With its foreboding thesis that humanity’s population … Continue reading
A Beginner’s Guide To Buying Great Coffee
The first 1000 people to use this link will get 30% off an annual Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/jameshoffmann05211 Let me know if this is useful! Learn more about tasting coffee: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx… Chapter timecodes: 0:00 Intro to the series & overview … Continue reading
Yemenia: Bigger than Gesha?
[…] Thank you to Qima for taking the time to speak with me, and also for providing additional footage from Yemen. The full interview will be available on Patreon soon. It may be published here in the future. […]
Tasting The Lost Species That Might Save Coffee
The new paper, from April 2021: “Arabica-like flavour in a heat-tolerant wild coffee species” – https://www.nature.com/articles/s4147… Finding Stenophylla (2020 full paper): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/… Kew Science: https://www.kew.org/science CIRAD: https://www.cirad.fr/en/our-research/… University of Greenwich Research: https://www.gre.ac.uk/research Thank you to Kew and Dr Aaron Davis … Continue reading
Beyond the Gardens: The Forgotten Home of Coffee
Coffee is one of the world’s favourite drinks, one of the most important commercial crop-plants, and the second most valuable international commodity; Arabica coffee is considered to produce the finest coffee beans. A study conducted by scientists at the Royal … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 – The Food Programme, Fresh Grounds: The Search for the World’s Rarest Coffee
Dan Saladino meets the plant hunters looking for the world’s forgotten coffee varieties. Source: BBC Radio 4 – The Food Programme, Fresh Grounds: The Search for the World’s Rarest Coffee