...The Effects of Globalization and the Coffee Industry Assignment #5 ECON 401 December 30, 2014 Globalization has had an effect on many aspects of our lives, socially, economically, politically, and culturally. Since the 1970’s trade barriers have been minimized and the coffee industry has been a high import and export for many countries being the second most traded commodity in the world behind crude oil (Chapman, Hodges, 2011). As the industry evolved and large corporations fed on the increasing demand for coffee, it has become a commodity many countries rely on; 20 million people depend on coffee for their livelihood (AAFC, 2010), whether it be the north American coffee retailor to the small farmer, we can say that globalization has and will continue to affect every aspect of the coffee chain. Supply, Demand & Price It is evident today that people need to have their coffee. In the 1960’s and 70’s half of the worlds coffee came from Columbia and it was about $3.00 per pound (Lewis, 2014). The industry was booming and protected by the Columbia Coffee Federation. This was a regulatory party who acted as a mini union for the coffee farmers who basically had no voice to the state. At this time it was good business to be in agriculture in Columbia. Since then demand has only risen as the large coffee retailors such as Starbucks and Seattle’s best have made coffee drinking a major social pastime. The shifts in the coffee supply and demand are not predicted by...
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...How did coffee effect on Latin America? Coffee is increasingly becoming a part of Western culture for many it has become a daily routine and coffee shops are now a common social meeting place. Since coffee shops are getting popular and built at every half block in many downtowns, it may not be surprising that coffee has become the second largest traded commodity next to oil (Watson and Achinelli 2008). As the consumer steps up to the register and orders their four-dollar latte, “it is most likely that they will not think of the more than 25 million people around the world who base their livelihoods on its production” (Watson and Achinelli 2008). The producers of these coffee beans are often small-scale farmers who are reliant on faceless consumers, large corporations. Coffee is now one of the world’s most traded goods, it is important for both consumers and producers to understand the impact the production of coffee is having on the farmers at a local level. The western culture of coffee is rapidly expanding. As the globalization of coffee spreads to consumers, corporations are becoming more and more disconnected from the coffee producers. The research will look at specific case studies of how the coffee impacts on Latin America. In addition, I’ll be also looking at the specific effects of economic change of coffee production on farmers and children in Brazil. Through the introduction of the crop into the Caribbean in the early 1700’s, became of economic importance in the mid-1800s...
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...INVESTIGATION OF CAFFEINE CONTENT LEVEL OF TOP 5 COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE COFFEE PRODUCTS USED BY MSU CHS STUDENTS AND ITS EFFECT ON COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE An Undergraduate Thesis Presented to: Prof. Ashley Ali- Bangcola, RN, MAN In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements In HS 199 1ST semester AY 2011-2012 Presented by: Norhanifah R. Mala-atao June 2011 Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE Background of the Study “A cup of coffee will do.” One might say this early morning before leaving for work or for school, in the afternoon when you are so busy doing all your stuff and you feel drained, or late evening when you need to be awake to study a pile of lectures, make your requirements, prepare for your report and the like. It is really a fact that nowadays people are hooked at drinking coffee for them to stay alive and more alert. For some, it has become a habit. Aside from that, it is also undeniable that coffee production is in greater amounts. Coffee shops are widely spread, and if you passed by a grocery mart or mini-store along the corner of your streets, you can buy an instant coffee product. It is readily available in market at an affordable cost. What is really in coffee that we seem to be addicted with? It is actually the caffeine. Caffeine is a drug that is naturally produced in the leaves and seeds of many plants. It's also produced artificially and added to certain foods (www.kids.org.caffeine.html). Caffeine is defined as a drug because...
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...available soon. Effects of coffee, smoking, and alcohol on liver function tests: a comprehensive cross-sectional study BMC Gastroenterology 2012, 12:145 doi:10.1186/1471-230X-12-145 Eun Sun Jang (jeses19@gmail.com) Sook-Hyang Jeong (jsh@snubh.org) Sung Ho Hwang (c3134@snubh.org) Hyun Young Kim (cecilup@naver.com) So Yeon Ahn (ahnsoyeon@gmail.com) Jaebong Lee (wantu4@gmail.com) Sang Hyub Lee (gidoctor@snubh.org) Young Soo Park (dkree@snubh.org) Jin Hyeok Hwang (jhhwang@snubh.org) Jin-Wook Kim (kimjw@snubh.org) Nayoung Kim (nayoungkim49@empas.com) Dong Ho Lee (dhljohn@snubh.org) ISSN Article type Submission date Acceptance date Publication date Article URL 1471-230X Research article 31 May 2012 10 October 2012 18 October 2012 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-230X/12/145 Like all articles in BMC journals, this peer-reviewed article can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). Articles in BMC journals are listed in PubMed and archived at PubMed Central. For information about publishing your research in BMC journals or any BioMed Central journal, go to http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/ © 2012 Jang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Effects of coffee, smoking, and...
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...mean over 170 mg for age groups 31-50 and 51-70 years (equalling over four cups of black tea, or one and a half espresso shots of coffee). Along with approximately one quarter of 51-70 year olds consuming the equivalent of six to seven cups of tea or two to three espresso shots of coffee each day (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2015). Due to this significant caffeine consumption within our Australian society, science has developed an interest in the physical effects that caffeine has on our body in relation to our performance. Caffeine is considered...
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...that can be found in varies kinds of products in daily life diet such as coffee, tea, cola and even chewing gums. Many people are used to reach a cup of coffee as the start of a new workday. “According to the International Coffee Organization, approximately 1.6 billion cups of coffee are consumed worldwide every day” (Whiteman). However, many people don’t have clear understanding about the health effect of caffeine and took in excessive caffeine daily. In fact, caffeine is not as harmless as people think, it is a chemical substance that can harm our health. One of the main reason why coffee is so popular is its effect on promoting people’s concentration. Many people would choose coffee as a kick-start of...
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...PROJECT AN ANALYSIS OF THE COFFEE MARKET ASHWIN MURALI (I001) | ANIRUDHHA BHATOTIA (I006) | APALA RATH (I063) CONTENTS Sr. No. Topic Page No. 1. Research Question 2 2. Introduction 2 3. Industry characteristics in India 3 4. The economics of the coffee market 4 5. Findings 6 6. Conclusion 7 7. Suggestions 7 8. References 8 1 Research Question How does weather drive microeconomic forces to affect the prices of coffee? Introduction Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of "berries" from the Coffea plant. Coffee is a popular beverage and an important commodity. Tens of millions of small producers in developing countries make their living growing coffee. Over 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed in the world every day. Over 90% of coffee production takes place in developing countries, while consumption happens mainly in the industrialized economies. Coffee has its origins in the Horn of Africa, in the Ethiopian province of Kaffa, where in all probability the first coffee tree appeared. It’s been attested that coffee beans used to be chewed by African slaves brought to Arab countries and coffee has been cultivated in Yemen since the 15th century. Coffee was brought to Europe by Venetian traders in 1615, when hot chocolate and tea had already become fashionable. Europeans then started to cultivate coffee in their freshly acquired colonies...
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...A System Dynamics Study of Instability in the Colombian Coffee Market by Juan Fernando Perez Velasquez Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Philosophy in System Dynamics System Dynamics Group Department of Geography University of Bergen 2010 Abstract The coffee market in Colombia is highly unstable, being more unstable in the last 20 years (since the removal of the ICO agreement). During 1980 and 1990 the coffee price was varying around 8% around a mean and over the last 20 years it has been oscillating around 15% to 20% around a mean. The coffee market presents an 8 to 11 years cycle in price and production. Coffee market is well known for its volatility and for the crisis that producers are confronting, i.e., poverty, low prices, etc. The main causes for this crisis are the characteristic behaviors of the coffee market itself, which presents price instability, resource unsustainabillity, and inequity along the commodity chain (specially for coffee growers), the same characteristics of other commodity markets. In this paper we focused on the first of the causes, price instability, and so we created a System Dynamics model of the Colombian coffee sector that captures the structure of that market, the delays and feedbacks present on it. With this research we intended to answer the following questions: Why is the Colombian coffee market so unstable in price and quantity? And what can be done to reduce the instability...
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...The Ultimate Guide to Caffeine for Coffee Lovers Meta Description: Coffee lovers have a relationship with caffeine whether they are decaf only drinkers or hit the hard stuff, but few really understand anything about caffeine and its effects on the body. Here’s a quick guide. Meta Keywords: Caffeine effects, Coffee lovers, Caffeine and the body, Coffee and caffeine Research: Wikipedia Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know, but… Whether you’re a decaf only type of coffee drinker, or a double shot three times a day type of coffee drinker, you have a relationship with caffeine. But how much would you say you really know about the drug that naturally occurs in coffee and a handful of other plants throughout the world? How much would you...
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...thousand shops in 40 countries, Starbucks is clearly the world's top coffee retailer. The coffee house has become so well known by their endless list of delicious drink that they no longer have to print their name on the cups and people will still know the logo. The average Starbucks customer visits the store 6 times per month while a loyal 20% of customers go to the stores 16 times per month. But what is it about this coffee that has customers constantly coming back for more? It’s not only the delightful taste, or the pick-me-up that it provides, but it’s addictive use of caffeine in the ingredients. Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid that acts as a stimulant drug. Caffeine is found in many plant and seed species such as the cocoa leaf, coffee beans, and tea leaves which explains why it is found in many drinks such as coffee, tea, soda, energy drinks and even chocolate. Caffeine has been found to have addictive tendencies and can also lead to different psychological illnesses. Caffeine was first isolated from coffee in 1820 by the German chemist Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, and then independently in 1821 by French chemists Pierre Robiquet. Although caffeine was discovered in early 1800’s people have been drinking coffee as far back as the early ninth century. During that time, coffee beans were only available from where they originated from, Ethiopia. Legends trace the discovery of coffee either to a Sufi dervish named Omar, or to a goatherder named Kaldi...
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...General Purpose: lay audience persuasion speech Specific Purpose: Why you should drink coffee Introduction Attention Catcher: How many of you had a cup of coffee today? How about in the past week? Coffee in America is an everyday drink for most people. It is the second most consumed beverage behind water. Thesis: I believe that we need to drink coffee and that there are many positives for consuming coffee. Preview: Positive Information on Coffee Coffee may counter several risk factors for heart attack and stroke. First, there's the potential effect on type 2 diabetes risk. Type 2 diabetes makes heart disease and stroke more likely. Besides that, coffee has been linked to lower risks for heart rhythm disturbances (another heart attack and stroke risk factor) in men and women, and lower risk for strokes in women. In a study of about 130,000 Kaiser Permanente health plan members, people who reported drinking 1-3 cups of coffee per day were 20% less likely to be hospitalized for abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) than nondrinkers, regardless of other risk factors. And, for women, coffee may mean a lower risk of stroke. In 2009, a study of 83,700 nurses enrolled in the long-term Nurses' Health Study showed a 20% lower risk of stroke in those who reported drinking two or more cups of coffee daily compared to women who drank less coffee or none at all. That pattern held regardless of whether the women had high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, and type 2...
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...The Effects of Fair-trade Coffee Trade on the Coffee Trade between Ethiopia and the United States Jun Li 4412061 10-10-2013 OUTLINE - PART A The Effects of Fair-trade Coffee Trade on the Coffee Trade between Ethiopia and the United States Just like many other Sub-Saharan African countries, Ethiopia’s economy is mainly based on agricultural products. According to CIA World Factbook, “agriculture in Ethiopia accounts for 46.4% (2011) of the gross domestic product (GDP) and 85% of total employment.” As the major agricultural export crop in Ethiopia for many years, Coffee business contributes about one fourth of the country's foreign exchange earnings in each year, creates millions of working opportunities, supports and feeds more than 25% of the national population. Just like many third world coffee-planting countries, unfair coffee trade caused problems such as over-dependent on one single commodity, environmental damage and labor problems. In Ethiopia, coffee planters and their families have suffered poverty as a result of fluctuating coffee prices for ages. The implementation of producing and exporting Fair-trade certified coffee from Ethiopia to the United States, which, we believed, economically benefited Ethiopia in terms of contributing to export volume growth and national GDP; and only caused relatively mild reaction in the United States: a still-robust consumer demand and increasing import volume of Ethiopian Coffee. This study will mainly focus on the effects of Fair-trade...
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...2014 Persuasive Essay Does coffee help improve one’s performance in school or at the workplace? According to several sources, such as the makers of the infamous Livestrong brand and researchers at Mayo Clinic, it does. Caffeine not only aids in motivating one to wake up faster but also spurs cognitive performance, improve memory, and concentration. Combatting fatigue from rising early in the morning, coffee also helps improve alertness as well. The caffeine in coffee has proven successful at improving both selective and sustained attention. A study done by the ISIC gathered two test groups. One group was habitual coffee drinkers; those who consume coffee on a regular basis as a part of their daily diet. The latter group, the non-coffee drinkers, was those who do not utilize coffee in a consistent diet. In those who habitually consumed coffee, the dosage of caffeine needed to increase performance levels was 400mg. In the non-habitual consumers, the dose was 200mg. These test subjects proved that caffeine consumption helped deter sleep inertia, therefore decreasing the amount of mistakes or accidents in the workplace. Sleep inertia is characterized by grogginess and lack of motor dexterity and is the usual cause of one desiring to return to sleep upon awakening (ISIC, 2004). Furthermore, the positive effects of caffeine can be found in attentive performance. ESFA, a selective group of scientists, reviewed case studies done on the effects of coffee on sustained attention and...
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...caffeine and how it effects your body. • How many of you consider yourself as caffeine addicts? How much coffee do you drink a day? One cup? Two cups? More? How about caffeinated sodas? • Caffeine is spreading in our society these days. • every now and then, we hear about how good and bad caffeine is for us. • Today I'd like to give you some of the facts about caffeine and its effects on your body. • It may or may not cause you to change your coffee consumption but at least you'll be better informed about what you are putting into your body. • What is caffeine? • Caffeine is a drug that is naturally produced in the leaves and seeds of many plants. • It's also produced artificially and added to certain foods such as candy, soda and energy drinks. • Caffeine is defined as a drug because it stimulates the central nervous system, causing increased alertness. • Today, I'm going to talk about where caffeine comes from, the beneficial effects of caffeine and the negative effects of caffeine. • More than 80% of the adult population drink coffee regularly. • Children also have caffeine intake as they also consume chocolates, sodas and iced teas. • It is estimated that an average person can consume up to 70 mg of caffeine per day. • So, where to do we get it? Where does caffeine come from? • Although most caffeinated beverages have a dark color, caffeine is actually a white, bitter-tasting, crystalline substance. • Darkly roasted coffee has less caffeine than...
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...Caffeine is most widely known for its use in the coffee industry. Many Americans are dependent on their early morning Latte. Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system, which is why many people love this morning pick me up. Each caffeine molecule contains eight carbon atoms, ten hydrogen atoms, four nitrogen atoms, and two oxygen atoms. It has a molar mass of 194.19 grams per mol. The molecular formula for a caffeine molecule is C8H10N4O2. Caffeine can be found naturally in fruits and leaves of particular plants. The most popular of course is the coffee plant. Two main plants are used today for most coffee production. “Coffea arabica, known as Arabica coffee, accounts for 75-80 percent of the world's production. Coffea canephora, known as Robusta coffee, accounts for about 20 percent,” (“Arabica and Robusta Coffee Plant”). After harvesting the round fruit, we call coffee beans, they are ground up and filtered in hot water to make coffee. Coffee takes many forms in the industry. There are espresso shots, mochas, lattes, Frappuccino’s, and of course straight black coffee. Lattes, mochas, and Frappuccino’s are usually coffee or espresso shots mixed with milk, sugar, and other flavors to mask the taste of coffee,...
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