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Hello my name is Scott and this is my blog on coffee.
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A Brief History of Coffee

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First Found It is thought that coffee was first found in the early 9th century in Ethiopia, east Africa. It gets its name from the region it was first found and grown in, Kaffa. The natives believed that when the plant was added to water and boiled, it had healing powers to those who drank it. It became well known and its popularity spread fast. According to Ethiopian legend, it was an  Abyssinian goatherder, Kaldi, who lived around AD 850, who discovered coffee. He observed his goats prancing excitedly and bleating loudly after chewing the bright red berries that grew on some green bushes nearby. Kaldi tried a few berries himself, and soon felt full of energy. He filled his pockets with the berries and ran home to announce his discovery.         Reaches Europe From there, it spread to the neighbouring countries and Yemen and by 1517 it had reached the Turkish city of Constantinople. It then became popular in Europe throughout the Ottoman Empire...
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Fair Trade Coffee

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www.wikipedia.org Fair Trade is a non-profit organisation set up to protect vulnerable coffee farmers from sudden price drops as the price of coffee is very unpredictable. The unpredictability of prices can be due to a number of reasons such as an outbreak of disease, bad weather and large harvests in major coffee producing countries (e.g. Brazil). Fairtrade protects farmers by offering a Fairtrade Minimum Price which protects farmers when prices go below a level where it is just not feasible to produce the coffee. If the market price is higher than this Minimum Price, then farmers are free to negotiate with buyers for more money. Coffee farmers receive a Fairtrade Premium of 20 cents per pound of conventional coffee produced and an additional 30 cents per pound if it is organic coffee. At least five cents is dedicated to improve production and/or quality.
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