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The world coffee prices fell by 20 % in 2013, exemplifying the struggle in some commodity markets "against an avalanche of supply." The world's coffee production is increasing as a result of more acres devoted to the culture and the adoption of more productive and resistant plants.
Producers of Colombia and Ethiopia have decided to boost production for over three years when prices were shooting. Now the market of $ 6.1 billion of future Arabica representing most of the world's coffee production is grappling with the consequences of this increase.

Coffee production in Colombia increased 41% in 2013, the year exports experienced a growth of more than a third (35%) compared to 2012, said, on Friday, the National Federation of the sector.
According to a report by the National Federation of coffee growers, throughout 2013, 10.8 million bags of 60 kg were produced, compared to 7.7 million recorded in 2012, reflecting an increase of 41%.
The increase in coffee production was in 'tune' with total exports, with overseas sales of 9.6 million bags of coffee, reflecting an increase of 35% compared to 2012.
Source: Visão

The tradition of drinking coffee is becoming increasingly popular among young Turks in the country that invented the cafeteria. In early December, the UNESCO declared the "Turkish coffee" Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, which helped popularize this ancient tradition that was marginalized in recent decades. The "Turkish coffee" is prepared from finely ground coffee. The result is a highly concentrated drink traditionally served in small cups.
Source: Revista Cafeicultura

The coffee harvest this year is expected to reach 49.15 million bags of 60 kilos in Brazil. The projection was released on Friday (20/12) by the National Supply Company (Conab). The fourth harvest estimate of the product indicated a reduction of 3.3 % compared to the previous cycle.

An investigation of the University of Minho has created a drink made from coffee grounds, with an alcohol content that makes it so strong as vodka or brandy. This has already been considered by Time magazine one of the 25 best inventions of the year.
«The new drink was identified as alcoholic coffee but actually is a distilled as a clear brandy with 40% ethanol and aroma of coffee," says the responsible of the investigation, Solange Mussatto in a statement.
The patent was registered, is awaited by someone who be interested in the product, in a commercial component.

In the Brazilian state of São Paulo, the Coffee Museum, an institution of the State Secretariat of Culture, inaugurated with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, the exhibition "50 years of the International Coffee Organization."
Looking to contextualize, both politically and economically, the trajectory of the ICO, an organization that completes 50 years, this temporary exhibition began on the 10th of this month and will last until March 31, 2014, in order to reveal and enhance the importance and history of the authority over the years.

The Italian company CDA (Cattelan Distributori Automatici), which offers more than six tons of coffee per month for about 1600 machines it manages, started a project in collaboration with the University of Udine and in particular with the Blucomb, company that resulted from it, specializing in the production and use of plant design, to convert the coffee grounds into biofuel and fertilizer.

The low price of the bag of coffee on the international market was the main topic discussed in the regional assemblies developed by the National Association of Coffee Growers of Honduras (Anacafeh).
One of the measures is to reduce costs to the maximum, whereas the current decline in prices is more serious than the rust fungus that attacks crops, said the president of Anacafeh, Jorge Lanza.

According to figures released by the ICO (International Coffee Organization), the continuing deterioration of coffee prices stabilized slightly in November, despite the average monthly prices of four indicators of coffee groups remain at minimum.

A new 'Green Coffee Carbon Footprint Product Category Rule (CFP- PCR)' was published, the first of its kind for the calculation of emissions of greenhouse gases from the production of green coffee. During 18 months, various stakeholders in the sustainability of the coffee world sector have come together to create a universally applicable methodology.