As informações são do Cecafé, resumidas em Português pelo CaféPoint, segundo o Conselho dos Exportadores de Café do Brasil, o CeCafé, as exportações brasileiras de café apresentaram um acréscimo de…
AUG 16 (SpillingTheBeans)–Coffee exports from Brazil, the world’s largest coffee producing and exporting country, are seen rising 7 percent to 30.5 million 60-kilogram bags in calendar year 2013, Brazil’s Coffee…
Tiny East African grower Rwanda started growing coffee around 1904 when German missionaries first brought Arabica seeds from the coffee producing region around Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Also known as…
Contrary to popular belief the Rwanda genocide was very much a conflict about coffee. Up until the genocide in April 1994 coffee exports accounted for as much as 70 percent…
As Rwanda struggled to get back on its feet after the genocide the coffee sector quickly became a central focal point for economic attention. And with that came admirable and…
Up to as many as 1 million people were killed during the Rwanda genocide in 1994 and humanitarian groups estimate that as many as 500,000 widow genocide survivors were left…
At the Maraba coffee coop a strong focus on reconciliation combined with the efforts of several international coffee companies have helped the women get back on the road toward social…
While many growers in Rwanda are still struggling to get production back on track there are definite signs of the socio-economic conditions improving in Rwanda. As far as the coffee…
The Rwanda genocide broke out at the height of the coffee harvest that year in April and May and left the crop completely ruined and total output that year dived…
