BRITS MAY make 165 million cups of tea a day, but the nation’s favourite brew faces a number of challenges to survive. Climate change, water scarcity and competition for land use are all expected to combine to make those 165 million cups harder to come by. [...]
THE CHALLENGES posed to the global coffee market climate change, the economic crisis, rising production costs, volatile prices are well documented. Perhaps less well-documented but just as important is the role that coffee companies the world over are playing in helping minimise the risk of shortages. [...]
With over 100 eco-labelling schemes in the EU alone, accusations of greenwash filling the columns and once simple eco-ethical claims becoming more complicated, the humble – yet enormously powerful – consumer can be forgiven for finding themselves in the health food aisle at the supermarket scratching their heads in a state of ethical angst. Emiliana [...]
