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WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Agency for International Development and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (GMCR), a leader in specialty coffee and coffeemakers, announced that they will work together to strengthen social, economic and environmental development in coffee growing communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091022/USAIDLOGO)
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South of Kona, on Hawaii, the Big Island, a stretch of land harks back to a Hawaii of a different time. Towns have remained largely unchanged for 50 years; the land is largely unsullied; and the changes that have engulfed the island farther north have yet to dent the way of life. This in many ways is the Hawaii of your dreams. You hope it exists but don't really believe it's still there in a meaningful fashion. Rest assured, it is. You just have to look for it in one of the most beautiful, unspoiled regions in the Hawaiian Islands.
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MANIZALES, Colombia - These are golden days for coffee grower Segundo Cardona and thousands of other farmers in Colombia. Global prices for his beans are close to 14-year highs and according to some analysts, may remain at or near these levels for years to come. The reasons include less than optimal harvests in top coffee- producing countries Brazil and Vietnam, and growing consumption in major coffee-producing countries Brazil and Mexico as well as in traditional tea-drinking nations, including China, India and Russia.
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BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombian coffee growers are brewing up a lawsuit over a U.S. comic strip joking that violence is so rampant there, maybe "there's a little bit of Juan Valdez in every can" of the country's java. The Colombian Coffee Growers Federation says it has consulted with U.S. lawyers and will sue "Mother Goose & Grimm" cartoonist Mike Peters "for damage and harm, detriment to intellectual property and defamation.
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By buying green coffee beans and experimenting withdifferent roasting techniques - in a popcorn popper, for example, or on cookie sheets in the oven - he managed to create a prototype. It supports organic and Fair Trade coffee growers - about 29 percent of its coffee beans are Fair Trade, and it plans to be about 35 percent Fair Trade by 2008.
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The price of your morning buzz is getting higher and higher. Hit with wildly increasing costs for beans from growers, coffee roasters are charging more to supermarkets and other retailers -- and those folks are passing the higher prices on to consumers.
