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As part of the initiative to improve systems of coffee production in the regions close to the National Park Celaque, Honduras, 72 coffee farms received certification from the Rainforest Alliance. The purposes of certification is to get the adoption and implementation of sustainable agriculture in a closed area and seek to improve the practices of grain processing in order to reduce the environmental impact.

In the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, will gather leading baristas and coffee tasters of the country in order to participate in competitions integrated Week International Coffee
This initiative, which will take place in the pavilion Expominas, 9-13 September include the International Fair 8.º Space Café Brazil, as well as the 50-year reunion of the International Coffee Organization (ICO), which brings together more than 70 countries.

Yong Sheng is a common Chinese ship that is about to make history. He is the first holder containers to sail from China to Europe through the Arctic instead of the usual route south (through the Suez Canal), reducing in two weeks time regular travel.
Yong Sheng, which weighs 19,000 tons and is operated by Chinese state-owned COSCO Group, left the port of Dalian on August 8 and should reach Rotterdam, the Netherlands, via the Bering Strait, on 11 September. The journey time is 35 days, and through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea it usually takes 48 days.

According to figures released by the ICO (International Coffee Organization), the coffee submitted in the month of July a slight rise in prices, favoured by the possibility of frost in the growing regions of Brazil, which was followed by a further decline.
By comparison with the previous month, the average composite indicator price rose 1.2% to 118.93 cents / lb, remaining, however, the second lowest level since September 2009. This increase was due primarily to the performance of Robusta, which had an increase of 4.9% compared to June.

The coffee harvest in Brazil in 2014 was estimated at 60 million bags of 60kg, representing a growth of approximately 15% compared to the current season, the harvest of which goes for the final, estimated Wednesday the INTL FCStone.
Evaluation of consulting and commodity broker points to record volumes in Brazil, the largest producer and exporter of coffee, next season, which will be high in the biennial Arabica variety of the country. The current season in the cycle is low, alternating larger and smaller crops each year.

The Portuguese Industrial and Commercial Association of Coffee (AICC) is carrying out a campaign at the time of the highest traffic on the roads of Portugal. The long trips, hours at the wheel and the heat that is felt at this time contribute to making it one of the periods most favourable to road accidents. The AICC has in circulation, nationally, a collection of 10 packets of sugar, with 10 messages alluding to coffee intake in safer driving.

Although coffee is among the favourite drinks of consumers and is one of the most traded commodities in the world, surpassed only by oil, several researchers suggest that climate change may affect their production.
If you check this, the Brazil will certainly be one of the most affected, since they are the largest producer and exporter of coffee in the world, accounting for a quarter of world production, area where coffee consumption is growing exponentially.

The International Coffee Organization (ICO) argues that national governments should support producers, where the market price is below the cost or risk cripple the production of grain. In monthly report, the Organization emphasizes the "socio-economic importance of coffee as a main source of income, especially in rural areas, means that every effort should be made by governments to support their producers."

The world coffee production in 2012/13 is expected to increase 7.7% from a year earlier to 144.5 million bags, said on Wednesday the International Coffee Organization (ICO).
A frost in the main world producer, Brazil, in July should not cause damage to production in the main producing areas in Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, stressed the OIC.

For the doctor and researcher Luiz Antonio Machado César, from the Heart Institute - Incor, Clinical Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo - USP, coffee does not harm health if taken in moderate amounts and usual meaning up to four cups per day. It assesses the effects of coffee on variables involving the cardiovascular system to know the effects of alcohol in blood pressure and heart patients who already have coronary diseases and states that according to recent studies, there isn't evidence that coffee is bad for people with heart problems.