CoffeeLucas Freschi

Troy Carrington

Adam Nathaniel Dykman-Rosenberg

Why?

• A market stimulator• Commodity• Import and export of many nations• Provides jobs for the global community

The United States

• Major importer of beans• 54% of Americans drink coffee daily• Hawaii is the only State that produces coffee• Billions of dollars a year go to coffee related causes in

the United States

Environment

• Conventional farming of coffee beans= BAD• Grown in the tropics and developing countries• Deforstination• Habitat depletion• Fertilizers and insecticides

Culture

• Provides jobs in developing nations• Not always good jobs• Helps bring capital into emerging economies such as

Brazil• better living conditions

Views

• Most coffee is grown legally• Some illegal coffee farms• Unsafe and environmentally harmful legal methods are

condoned

• Tea is better