coffee Articles
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The speciality coffee shop market – are today's consumers demanding more than store ambience and good coffee from their consumption experience?
Since the early 1990s leading speciality coffee shop chains have provided a lucrative market for investment and during the early part of this decade, despite the worst recession occurring since the war, coffee shop chains managed to prosper and make substantial profits. However evidence does suggest that there are a number of challenges now facing the industry. This paper represents an initial ...
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Taste the Difference with Nitrogen Packed Coffee Grounds
When it comes to flavor, coffee purists prefer whole beans, which retain their flavors longer than ground coffee. Yet there's no denying the convenience factor of ground coffee, which is why it's so popular in offices. Ground coffee has a short shelf life -- hence the push to use airtight containers, which keep the flavors in the coffee -- and off flavors may develop if the coffee grounds are ...
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Champion Cornish: Origin
The next installment of our Champion Cornish blog series focuses on Origin Coffee. Origin are leaders in the field when it comes to producing artisan coffee. They certainly know their stuff with Dan Fellows being rated Number 1 in the 2016 UK Barista Championships, Number 2 in the 2015 UK Coffee in Good Spirits and Number 1 of the same accolade in 2012. It’s not just Dan either. Head of ...
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Heterogeneous photodegradation of methylene blue with iron and tea or coffee polyphenols in aqueous solutions
Recently, we developed two new Fenton catalysts using iron (Fe) and spent tea leaves or coffee grounds as raw material. In this study, Fe-to-tea or Fe-to-coffee polyphenol complexes were successfully tested as heterogeneous photo-Fenton catalysts. The photodegradation efficiency of methylene blue solutions with Fe-to-polyphenol complexes was higher than that of homogeneous iron salts in the ...
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Coffee Packaging Box
With the improvement of living standards, coffee is one of the most common drinks in our life. Many young people are willing to drink one or more cups of coffee every day due to the pressure of work and study pressure. We are not coffee producers, but we are coffee movers. We offer special packaging and transportation services to coffee makers around the world. For coffee packaging, we can ...
By Lihua Group
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Coffee Packaging Box
With the improvement of living standards, coffee is one of the most common drinks in our life. Many young people are willing to drink one or more cups of coffee every day due to the pressure of work and study pressure. We are not coffee producers, but we are coffee movers. We offer special packaging and transportation services to coffee makers around the world. For coffee box packaging design, ...
By Lihua Group
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Agribusiness & Plantation Software Case Study - PanAgro
The largest integrated coffee plantation company in the world, employing over 10,000 personnel relies on PanAgro for its labor payroll. With business activities ranging from growing and curing of coffee and tea to the manufacture and marketing of value-added coffee products, the Company owns 19 coffee estates spread over 8000 hectares producing 10,000 metric tonnes of coffee and 6 tea estates ...
By PanAgro
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Report on Occupational Health and Safety (OHS): Coffee Plantation Workers
Coffee Plantations and OHS The UNGPs (GPs) are five years old and yet, the National Action Plans (NAP) has not Coffee is a major cash crop and an important source of export revenue for many developing countries. Brazil is the leading producer of coffee followed by Vietnam, with India being the 7th largest producer. About 125 million people worldwide depend on coffee for their livelihood, ...
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A case study of small–scale coffee production: coffee farming as a potential tool for environmental conservation and community development in rural Minas Gerais, Brazil
This paper is based on research conducted about small–scale coffee farming in Rosário da Limeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The paper connects the global coffee market and new trends within the coffee market with the reality of small–scale coffee production. The paper considers the transition to a sustainable coffee production system as a potential tool for environmental ...
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Lessons in social responsibility for the value chain from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.
Written by a consultant specializing in value chain social responsibility, this article details the challenges of promoting social responsibility through the supply chain of a specialty company operating in the world's second largest commodity business — coffee. THE COFFEE CRISIS Over the past five years, a severe drop in the commodity price of coffee has devastated coffee producers worldwide. ...
By AHC Group
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Gender and agricultural sustainability: case study of Colombian coffee
This paper investigates how gender-based marketing strategies for Colombian coffee have affected gender roles and the economic and social advancement of women producers. In order to meet the demands of a European roaster interested in coffee produced by women, a Colombian coffee cooperative developed a female growers' program in 2000 which has grown into an association of 344 women. The study ...
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Yeasts and lactic acid bacteria coffee fermentation starter cultures
Six yeast strains that included; three Pichia anomala (P.aS12, P.aS14, P.aS16) and three Pichia kluyveri (PS7Y1, PkS4Y3, PkS13Y4); lactic acid bacteria (LAB) that included six strains identified as Leuconostoc/Weissella (BFE 6997, 6989), Homofermentative Lactobacillus spp. (BFE 6853, 6823), Lactobacillus spp. Heterofermentative (BFE 6812) and Enterococcus (BFE 6803) were used as starter cultures ...
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Technology and globalisation: who gains when commodities are de-commodified?
Like many primary products, coffee has long been characterised as a commodity with falling terms of trade and volatile prices. Yet, in recent years, there has been growing product differentiation in final markets, with premium prices being earned and high and sustainable incomes being provided. So far, these product rents have been almost entirely appropriated by residents of high-income ...
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Sustainable utilisation of crop genetic diversity through property rights mechanisms: the case of coffee genetic resources in Ethiopia
The legally binding 'International treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture' provides a framework to ensure access to crop genetic resources, technologies, and internationally agreed funding. However, this treaty applies only for a list of selected crops. Other crops, as for instance coffee, are not included. Besides other issues, the question arises how to design the access and ...
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Coffee Moisture Matters
Welcome to Moisture Matters – the show where we take your everyday and not so everyday objects and test them to see which has more moisture. Today we’re testing coffee. Which do you think has more moisture, light roast, or dark roast coffee? The Computrac Vapor Pro XL is a chemical-free Karl Fischer alternative that provides moisture specific results without the use of reagents or ...
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An analysis of a product service system in Bolivia: coffee in Yungas
The concept of Product-Service Systems (PSS) was suggested as one of the solutions to address the increasing levels of production and consumption. It advocates the view that sustainability can be reached if all elements of the system are optimised from economic, environmental and social perspectives. Lately, we have seen the proliferation of examples of PSS in Western countries, driven by market ...
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Coffee cherry husk - a potential feed stock for alcohol production
Coffee cherry husk (CCH) a toxic agro waste was tested for alcohol production by native yeast isolates. Out of five isolated yeasts, two produced acceptable amount of alcohol production from CCH extract. Pichia CJ isolated from rotten carrot and Clavispora CI isolated from coffee effluent produced maximum yield of 9.2 and 8.0%, respectively. Solid substrate fermentation (SSF) using CCH supported ...
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This man turned an opium field into a sustainable coffee farm in Thailand
Somsak Sriphumthong is on a caffeine-fueled mission. After years living and working abroad, the organic farmer and community leader returned to his native Thailand several years ago — during a time when the forests were being cleared for opium fields and rice plantations. Seeking a sustainable alternative, he started growing and selling organic coffee beans on reclaimed land. Why coffee? ...
By Ensia
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Cost efficiency of cryopreservation as a long-term conservation method for coffee genetic resources
Coffee (Coffea spp.) is one of the world's most valuable agricultural export commodities produced by small-scale farmers. Its germplasm, which holds useful traits for crop improvement, has traditionally been conserved in field genebanks, which presents many challenges for conservation. New techniques of in vitro and cryopreservation have been developed to improve the long-term conservation of ...
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"Chosen Bean" cafe eliminates chemical cleaners - customers love it!
A Melbourne cafe shows how to eliminate harmful chemicals from it"s cleaning menu by adopting GenEon technology. Food and coffee affectionado"s are fully catered to without risk of chemical contamination of their favourite bean juice or nibblies. Cleaning and sanitizing EFFECTIVELY without chemicals - how good is that? Using the Trio unit from GenEon, Barista Stephen Coster and his sustainably ...
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