Specialty coffee transforms Rwandan coffee industry


	Specialty coffee transforms Rwandan coffee industry

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11-19-2008 6:39 AM

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11-19-2008 7:54 AM

balthazarus

And still the coffee in Europe is better...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7e96c638-1f06-4bfb-9eae-0857cffd2e0d/9B6C2D8E-3BD1-45FE-BC7F-2522C6B17C47/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=af6ea.qO5TMM&refer=home" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=af6ea.qO5TMM&refer=home" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bloomberg.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=af6ea.qO5TMM&refer=home">Rwanda's $45 million coffee industry, which
represents half of its income, has specialty buyers in the U.S.
raving about its quality is news in itself, given how low the
country's beans were regarded just eight years ago.     </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=af6ea.qO5TMM&refer=home"><P><SPAN highlighter="#ff0">That situation has changed since 2000 thanks to investments
by former U.S. President </SPAN><A href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Bill+Clinton&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1"><SPAN highlighter="#ff0">Bill Clinton</SPAN></A><SPAN highlighter="#ff0">, </SPAN><A href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Bill+Gates&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1"><SPAN highlighter="#ff0">Bill Gates</SPAN></A><SPAN highlighter="#ff0">, Starbucks,
USAID and other organizations, which have poured millions of
dollars and resources into improving the coffee industry of the
landlocked African nation.     </SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=af6ea.qO5TMM&refer=home"><SPAN highlighter="#ff0">Rwandan coffee now may sell on the specialty market for about
three times what it previously sold for on the commodity market
because of the infrastructure improvements.     </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=af6ea.qO5TMM&refer=home"><SPAN highlighter="#ff0">Starbucks, which invested $1.1 million in the East Africa
region in fiscal 2008, has tripled the amount of beans it buys
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