Robert W Thurston Coffee Guide Hardcover sku-20973237

"Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry" is a hardcover listed under Robert W Thurston as African History Books, sku-20973237. Contributors from business and academia examine coffee's history, global spread, cultivation, preparation and marketing, along with environmental and social issues.

Topics include globalization; definitions of organic, direct trade and fair trade; the health of female farmers; shade, birds and coffee; roasting; profits along the commodity chain; who adds value to the bean; constraints of peasant life; and climate change.

Interviews and accounts of pickers, roasters, coffee bar owners and consumers bring different views of industry problems and proposed solutions into the book. The contributors are Sarah Allen, Jonathan D. Baker, Peter S. Baker, Jonathan Wesley Bell, Clare Benfield, H. C. "Skip" Bittenbender, Connie Blumhardt, Willem Boot, Carlos H. J.

Brando, August Burns, Luis Alberto Cuéllar, Olga Cuellar, Kenneth Davids, Jim Fadden, Elijah K. Gichuru, Jeremy Haggar, Andrew Hetzel, George Howell, Juliana Jaramillo, Phyllis Johnson, Lawrence W. Jones, Alf Kramer, Ted Lingle, Stuart McCook, Michelle Craig McDonald, Sunalini Menon, Jonathan Morris, Joan Obra, Price Peterson, Rick Peyser, Sergii Reminny, Paul Rice, Robert Rice, Carlos Saenz, Vincenzo Sandalj, Jinap Selamat, Colin Smith, Shawn Steiman, Robert W.

Thurston, Steven Topik, Tatsushi Ueshima, Camilla C. Valeur, Geoff Watts and Britta Zeitemann.