The Coffee Story

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We received our first funding from UNICEF. Most of them already knew us and were customers. All we did was invite them and handed them our proposal. Our goal was youth oriented - creating jobs and education. It was support we were looking for and received it from other entities like the World Health Organizationand World Food Programme. Main article: Coffee production in India Monsooned Malabar arabica, compared with green Yirgachefe beans from Ethiopia

The port at which the beans first arrived was called “Mocha.” Due to the growing popularity of coffee and the shipment of coffee from the port city, Mocha became synonymous with coffee. So, any time you hear the term “mocha” when talking about coffee, you now know where that term originated. Coffee wasgrown in Yemenand became well-known in Egypt, Persia, and Turkey.

The New World

This countrywide dependency on the beans has been an economic stimulus to many countries throughout South and Central America. Not only does America import coffee, but it actually grows a little bit of it as well.

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The first step in Europeans' wresting the means of production was effected by Nicolaes Witsen, the enterprising burgomaster of Amsterdam and member of the governing board of the Dutch East India Company who urged Joan van Hoorn, the Dutch governor at Batavia that some coffee plants be obtained at the export port of Mocha in Yemen, the source of Europe's supply, and established in the Dutch East Indies; [89] the project of raising many plants from the seeds of the first shipment met with such success that the Dutch East India Company was able to supply Europe's demand with "Java coffee" by 1719. [90] Encouraged by their success, they soon had coffee plantations in Ceylon, Sumatra and other Sunda islands. [91] Coffee trees were soon grown under glass at the Hortus Botanicus of Leiden, whence slips were generously extended to other botanical gardens. Dutch representatives at the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Utrecht presented their French counterparts with a coffee plant, which was grown on at the Jardin du Roi, predecessor of the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris.