For paid subscribers: A fascinating academic paper delves into the ways Korean Buddhists, after centuries of drinking tea, have started to embrace coffee.
Demand for coffee is growing, and climate change threatens supply—yet consumers don’t want to pay more. In an intensified and unequal industry, however, someone always pays.
This week, the coffee news features such exciting stories as:
Consumers think sustainability initiatives have been good for farmers. Farmers don’t.
The organization that tracks how much coffee is stored in US port warehouses suddenly stopped publishing that data, leaving analysts, traders, and roasters in the dark.
Italy’s “hallowed coffee culture” is being eyed up by international coffee brands eager to expand into a country not known for being welcoming to international coffee brands.
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