Brewing up a taste for coffee
Coffee is the world’s second most valuable traded commodity, produced by 25m farmers in 50 countries. Like many agricultural workers in the developing world, these farmers are exploited to increase coffee company profits and keep consumer prices low.
Ninety percent of coffee production is in developing countries, while consumption is mainly in industrialised economies. It’s estimated that 2.25bn cups of coffee are consumed every day; 11m hectares of farmland are dedicated to coffee production.
