Health Insight: Caffeine – here’s how quitting can benefit your health
ADAM TAYLOR, director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre at Lancaster University in the UK, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the impact of caffeine on the body…
Postcards: Kenya’s growing taste for specialty coffee seen spurring output
DUNCAN MIRIRI, of Reuters, reports on how a push to create a domestic market for coffee could help Kenyan farmers…
Building community “one cup at a time”: The beloved church coffee hour may soon return as COVID-19 fades
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on the role coffee is now playing in US churches, whether meeting online or in the real world…
Nicaragua: Coffee farmers brew fresh plans after hurricanes wreck harvests
ANNA-CATHERINE BRIGIDA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the challenges coffee farmers in Nicaragua are facing thanks to rising temperatures – and two hurricanes which impacted the country late last year…
Nespresso finds child labour at three Guatemalan coffee farms
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation Nespresso, the maker of coffee brewing pods and machines, found child labour at three farms where it buys coffee in Guatemala, the company said on Thursday, also announcing it implemented a prevention plan to ward off potential further abuse. The Nestle-owned coffee giant uncovered child labour at three of […]
Major Thai coffee brand vows to repay 200 debt-ridden farmers
Chiang Rai, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation A major Thai coffee brand has vowed to repay about 200 farmers who were forced to take out loans while waiting nearly three years for payment, leaving them with spiralling debts. Doi Chaang Coffee – which has more than 50 franchises in South-East Asia – said it would pay about […]
Tiny AI devices aim to enrich farmers and their soil
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation A piece of paper no bigger than a business card could enrich struggling coffee farmers and their soil, a growing challenge as temperatures rise and prices fluctuate. Enveritas, a US non-profit, signed an agreement with International Business Machines Corp on Thursday to pilot the AgroPad, which analyses soil samples remotely and […]
A SUSTAINABLE LIFE: WHY YOUR REUSABLE COFFEE CUP MAY BE NO BETTER THAN A DISPOSABLE
Writing for The Conversation in the UK context, CAROLINE WOOD, PhD researcher in plant biology and food security at the University of Sheffield, looks at how eco-friendly reusable coffee cups really are…
Falling coffee prices mean falling forests – US coffee czar
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Plunging coffee prices may be pressuring farmers to carve out land in rainforests for survival, the head of the US coffee trade body said, urging more help for growers to cope. Their behaviour was even more concerning because felling forests would accelerate climate change and could amplify the volatility […]
STRANGESIGHTS: COFFEE “NON-ESSENTIAL FOR HUMAN LIFE”; GRITS ROLLING; AND, “LASAGNA LIZARD” RECOGNISED….
DAVID ADAMS looks at the odder side of life…