Seattle Mayor Ed Murray this week proposed taxing so-called "sugary drinks" to pay for new health and education programs that would serve people of color. But not the super-sweet drinks that Starbucks sells inside its own stores.
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Bebber, D.P., Castillo, A.D. and Gurr, S.J. 2017. Modeling coffee leaf rust risk in Columbia with climate reanalysis data. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371: 20150458.
The Government of Brazil says it is pushing ahead with plans to change its laws to allow foreigners buy farmland, in a move widely backed by investors and opposed by land rights campaigners.
As markets change, Russia needed a place to dump the inferior coffee that it was shipping to Ukraine to someone else. They've found buyers at the bottom of several markets.
The Oregon legislature is considering a new bill that would tax coffee beans and ground coffee.
The bill, currently in the House, would impose a tax on wholesale coffee.
Some people are spreading a myth that washed coffee is better or cleaner than unwashed coffee. We’ve spoken to some experts and done some research to separate marketing speak from the science speak.
