Andy

Top Coffee Producers

Who Are the Top Coffee Producers of the World? Isn’t it incredible that some of the poorest countries in the world rely heavily on the income of a product which is consumed by almost everybody in the ‘first world’, but they still remain mostly third world? Is there something wrong somewhere?   Here are the Top Coffee Producers of the world: 1. Brazil – 36% 2....

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Coffee Origins

The History of Coffee Before the seventeenth century, the history of coffee was contained to Ethiopia in Africa and Arabia. It’s name originated from the Arabic Qahwah, through its Turkish form of Kahveh, becoming Koffie in Dutch. From the Levant it spread all the way into America, changing lifestyles everywhere it landed – first arriving in Venice, sweeping turbulently through Europe on its...

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The Coffee Belt

The majority of the worlds coffee is grown within the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer and is known as The Coffee Belt. As you will appreciate from the map, (courtesy of NationalGeographic.com), this is the tropical region above and below the Equator, where beans are born and cultivation thrives. From Kona, the Big Island of Hawaii to Brazil, to Ethiopia across to Indonesia within The Coffee...