For paid subscribers: Coffee is increasingly used to burnish the United Arab Emirates’ international image. Now it is being supercharged by merging with the popularity of the Dubai chocolate trend.
The coffee scene in Dubai is thriving, and the city is set to welcome the Specialty Coffee Association’s World of Coffee event next month. But underneath the glitzy facade and marketing buzz lies a moral quagmire.
Ethiopian coffee is becoming ever more popular in China, and Ethiopian exporters are looking to take advantage.
Australia’s much-vaunted coffee industry is suffering under the strains of inflation and the worldwide cost-of-living crisis. This is causing many cafes to close (while, predictably, blaming rising wages).
Researchers in Hawaii have found that cultural control-focused management—field sanitation, frequent harvesting, and strip-picking with relatively little applied pesticide—is more effective against the coffee berry borer than simply spraying the plants with pesticides. Bonus: higher net profits.
Plus there’s lots more union happenings. Read the full roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:
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