For paid subscribers: From the preposterous tech startup that wanted to roast coffee in space to espresso on the International Space Station, there’s a lot of coffee up there.
Many people visit cafes during the workday—but for those who work nights, good coffee remains woefully scarce. Now, one enterprising Australian is trying to change that.
The EU’s anti-deforestation legislation looms ever closer, and the coffee industry is getting squirrelly about the lack of information on implementation and compliance. Various coffee orgs are now pushing the European Commission for clarity on the laws, with Fairtrade International noting that “The farmers should not have to bear the compliance costs linked to laws imposed by the EU.”
Starbucks has replaced its CEO, ousting Laxman Narasimhan just seventeen months after he took the top job at the coffee giant, and replacing him with Chipotle chief executive Brian Niccol. The goal of this switcheroo is to “revive flagging sales and appease outside investors,” according to NBC News.
A study in the Democratic Republic of Congo found that coffee agroforestry systems return comparable yields to monoculture plantations, but support 19 times more biodiversity and store twice as much carbon. The goal was “to see whether agroforestry could be a pragmatic solution for farmers instead of merely a solution proposed by scientists, conservationists and development cooperation actors,” according to the lead study author.
Read all about these stories, and the rest of the week’s coffee news, over at Fresh Cup Magazine:
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