Kenya coffee farmers buy into “Fairtrade” schemes (AlertNet)
Coffee is criticized on health grounds (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
It’s the caffeinated coffee conundrum: If you didn’t drink coffee you’d sleep better and be more awake in the morning so you wouldn’t need to drink coffee in the morning to be more awake.
Lakeside Inn gains popular coffee shop (Orlando Sentinel)
Michael and Dee Price create freestanding shop in larger quarters than their downtown spot. Inside an artsy alcove, Michael and Dee Price have been serving coffee for years.
Coffee Fest trade show heats up Washington (The Washington Examiner)
The Olympics are winding down, but at the Washington Convention Center Friday, the competition was just heating up as coffee lovers from across the region gathered for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Barista Competition.
A Kenyan worker holds up coffee beans at the Kiamariga coffee factory in Nyeri Kenya (AlertNet)
A Kenyan worker holds up coffee beans at the Kiamariga coffee factory in Karatina, Nyeri, 100km northwest of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, February 24, 2006. Starbucks Corp is sponsoring the coffee factory to conserve the environment and improve the quality of coffee and has promised to purchase the coffee to help farmers who have been facing serious problems from marauding animals from Mount Kenya.
Kenya coffee farmers buy into “Fairtrade” schemes (AlertNet)
NYERI, Kenya, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Kenyan small-holder coffee farmers, long weighed down by poor prices and mismanagement, are seeking “Fairtrade”-style certification for their beans to attract higher prices in the international market.