Between 800 million and 1 billion people worldwide depend on coffee production for their full or partial daily survival – equivalent to over 10 percent of the TOTAL world population,…
Dear Followers, in honor of the all too many victims on the Indonesian coffee island of Sulawesi from a non-stop series of natural disasters, from the devastating tsunami last September…
Three years after the most damaging frost to hit Brazil’s main coffee growing regions in half a century, and amid other ongoing weather disasters, growers across the world’s largest producing country…
JULY 10, 2017–In honor of the World Coffee Producers Forum that starts today in the Colombian town of Medellin, the commercial capital of the country’s biggest coffee producing department of…
The birthplace of commercial coffee production as we know it today, the Ethiopian region of Harar is a mythical destination which to coffee lovers offers an intriguing and rare pilgrimage…
There is always something uniquely special about coffee reports, reviews or articles about coffee in and from Ethiopia, because after all, had it not been for the Ethiopians, at some…
The birthplace of Coffea Arabica, Ethiopia’s coffee has always had a unique place in the market. Specialty roasters will have at least one or two different coffees from regions such…
The spread of coffee throughout the world was started by the Ottoman Empire which was forced to leave 2 bags of coffee behind when in 1683 fleeing the Siegue of…
In honor of my visit this week to Ethiopia, the birthplace of Coffea Arabica, I am republishing a number of my special reports on this awesome country and its wonderful…
NEW SPECIAL SERIES: When it comes to coffee history, few countries are more fascinating than India. Long one of the five or six biggest coffee growers in the world, India…
My name is Maja and I’m a Danish born woman, crazy and beyond passionate about everything coffee. I have written about all aspects of coffee for over 30 years from near 70 coffee producing countries across the world. Welcome to my blog !!
