Shade Grown Coffee Shrinking as a Proportion of Global Coffee Production
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 14:01
in Mathematics & Economics
According to a new study, over the past couple of decades, global coffee production has been shifting towards a more intensive, less environmentally friendly style. That's pretty surprising if you live in the U.S. and you've gone to the grocery store or Starbucks, where sales of environmentally and socially conscious coffees have risen sharply and now account for half of all U.S. coffee sales by economic value.