Demand for Coffee Can Create Rift with Poorer Nations: Study

The explosive demand for worldwide coffee in the past two decades has not benefitted farmers of coffee beans in poorer nations, reveals study.

The explosion in worldwide coffee consumption in the past two decades has generally not benefitted farmers of coffee beans in poorer nations along the equator, said a new study. A University of Kansas (KU) researcher studying trade and globalization has found that the shift to “technified” coffee production in the 1970s and 1980s has created […]