This May 2012 article in the UK Observer Newspaper, by acclaimed environmental and ethics journalist, Lucy Siegle follows the climate challenges faced by coffee farmers the World over and how coffee producers in Peru are attempting to tackle these.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/13/peru-coffee-climate-change-carbon-trading    

Liz Evers has been the Communications Manager at Twin and Twin Trading Ltd since 2011. A long-time supporter of fair trade, she has a background in sustainable development and ethical finance. The name Twin may not be familiar to those outside fair trade circles. But this small, hard-working organisation is the driving force behind many [...]

Interesting article about Bolivia’s budding coffee industry. It suggests that Bolivia could become a major player in coffee production since its wealth of high-altitude soil provides perfect refuge for beans as global warming forces crops to higher ground. Click here  to read the article by Jean Friedman-Rudovsky.

In the 1970s and 1980s, coffee was the leading export commodity for Kenya. By local standards, coffee growing areas were affluent with well-developed infrastructure. Children born in coffee growing households were assured of a decent education. Coffee co-operatives were a government unto themselves. They owned large investments across all sectors of the economy. Kenya’s economy [...]