Coffee

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Coffee

• Teddya Konopka and Madison Misuro

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Coffee

• The coffee bean is the seed found inside of the
  fruit (the coffee cherry) that comes from the
  coffee tree
• Coffee trees are capable of growing in different
  climates
• Most coffee beans are named after the specific
  region they were grown in
• Caffeine (found in coffee) is one of the fastest
  acting drugs known to man
• New Yorkers drink almost 7 times more coffee than
  other cities in the U.S.
• http//www.statisticbrain.com/coffee-drinking-stat
  istics/

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Where Coffee Comes From

• Hawaii- only state in the US that commercially
  grows coffee
• Mexico
• Guatemala
• El Salvador
• Costa Rica
• Panama
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Puerto RicoColombia
• Peru
• Rwanda
• Tanzania

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Where Coffee Comes From (cont.)

• Malawi
• Kenya
• Ethiopia
• Yemen
• India
• Sumatra
• Sulawesi
• Java
• Papau New Guinea
• Brazil- Worlds biggest producer of coffee
  (produces nearly twice as much as Vietnam and
  Columbia combined in 2012)
• Galapagos

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Human Rights and Environmental Concerns

• Coffee Rust- a strange fungal disease that became
  widespread by the mid- 19th century.
• Guatemala has declared a national emergency
  because of a recent coffee rust outbreak which is
  causing even more devastation than when the
  outbreak first came out.
• There are also reports of disease in Nicaragua,
  El Salvador, and Mexico.
• Water usage
• 37 gallons of water to produce one cup of coffee

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Cultural Concerns
Coffee Plantation in South India

• The British controlled many coffee plantations in
  Southern India and Sri Lanka (then known as
  Ceylon) during the 18th and 19th centuries.
• Fair Trade issues

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Environmental Consequences

• Deforestation
• Soil erosion
• Loss of trees
• River and stream pollution

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How It Is Used In The U.S.

• For energy (caffeine)
• More than half of the US drinks coffee everyday
• There is about 95 mg in one cup of coffee
• Socializing
• At work

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Work Cited

• "All About Coffee." - National Coffee
  Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2013.
• "Coffee Drinking Statistics." Statistic Brain
  RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2013.
• "Coffee Geography Where Does Coffee Come
  From?" Fairway Market. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept.
  2013.
• "Coffee." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 24
  Sept. 2013. Web. 24 Sept. 2013.
• "The Oatmeal." 15 Things Worth Knowing About
  Coffee -. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2013.
•  "TED Case Studies." Case Study. N.p., n.d. Web.
  24 Sept. 2013
• Tepper, Rachel. "As Coffee Rust Devastates Latin
  America, Colombia's Cenicafé Leads The
  Resistance." The Huffington Post.
  TheHuffingtonPost.com, 25 Mar. 2013. Web. 24
  Sept. 2013.