A Stronger Future for Coffee Starts Where It Is Grown By Boubaker Ben Belhassen Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -

A Stronger Future for Coffee Starts Where It Is Grown By Boubaker Ben Belhassen Stronger farms and better markets can build a more resilient coffee economy ROME, Sep 30 2026 (IPS) - Imagine your morning coffee. You smell the aroma as steam rises from the cup. It wisps and swirls, thins, then disappears. You lift the cup to your mouth. The first pure joy of the day. That coffee may have begun beneath shade trees in Ethiopia, on a Colombian hillside, in Viet Nam’s highlands or among the coffee farms of Brazil. Long before it reached your cup, someone planted and tended the trees from which it came. Then came the harvest. Ripe cherries were picked with care, and the coffee began a journey that would carry it far from the place where it was grown. https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/09/a-stronger-future-for-coffee-starts-where-it-is-grown/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=How_to_Protect_Coastal_Communities_From_TideRelated_Loss_and_Damage_in_Bangladesh_For_Pakistan_Risin Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -