Coffee pact aims to help growers
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Four of the world's largest coffee companies agree a voluntary pact to help improve conditions in producer countries.
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KAMPALA, Sep 8 (IPS) - Coffee producers in Uganda suffer from an unfair  trade relationship with Europe, even though their beans produce  some of the best quality coffee in the world, says the Ugandan  coffee industry's governing body.
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Latin America's agricultural giant scored two trade victories Wednesday against rich countries' farm subsidies after the World Trade Organization agreed with Brazil that its farmers have been hurt by government assistance for U.S. cotton farmers and European Union sugar beet growers.
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Long used by farmers as a guard against grazing animals and erosion, a plant called jatropha is now being hailed as a potentially ideal source of biofuel.
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The two top ethanol producers announce an international effort to draft biofuel-production standards and expand global markets. By the Associated Press.
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By MICHAEL ASTOR  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A proposed ethanol alliance that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to forge with President Bush later this week poses both opportunities and risks for the environment, a top U.N. environmental official said Monday.
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President Bush is preparing to finish an agreement with Brazil to promote the production and use of ethanol throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Starbucks Corp.  and the  Ethiopian government reached an agreement that settles a  dispute over the country&#39;s bid to trademark its coffee beans,  according a joint statement released on Wednesday.
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Colombian coffee icon Juan Valdez will  lead his country's growers' federation into Manhattan on  Tuesday to open its first New York coffee shop, and market  watchers are wondering whether the challenge to Starbucks Corp.  will amount to a hill of beans.
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A push is on to help small firms join NAFTA and close Mexico's rich-poor gap.
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After seeing Midwestern farmers improve their lot by selling corn to ethanol distilleries, sugar cane and sugar beet growers want their own ethanol deal, paid for by U.S. taxpayers.
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The United States and Colombia signed an agreement Wednesday meant to knock down trade barriers for U.S. businesses and bolster a South American ally that has been battling drug traffickers and guerrillas.
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NYERI, Kenya  - Growing coffee for 20 years has   not lifted 60-year-old Maina Kimondo from poverty.
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Shareholders of Belgian brewer Interbrew SA on Friday backed the planned &#36;11.4 billion combination of their family company with Brazil's Ambev in a deal that would form the world's largest brewer by volume.
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Chemists at Emory University, USA, have made an important advance in harnessing the ability of bacteria to make new molecules, and their discovery could eventually lead to the creation of naturally decaffeinated coffee plants.
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Coffee lovers are digging deeper into  their pockets for their daily fix of the black brew.
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10/11/2004 - US chemists are working to develop bacteria that could ultimately lead to improved production of naturally-derived decaffeinated coffee.