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 # Coffee in the Age of Exploration

 


 

 Nov 27, 2013 7:00 AM ET

  

[Originally published on CRS Coffeelands Blog by Michael Sheridan](http://coffeelands.crs.org/2013/11/373-coffee-in-the-age-of-exploration/#more-5615)

By Michael Sheridan

Ten years ago, almost no one in coffee was talking about hunger in the coffeelands. Now it seems almost everyone is. How did the issue of food security in coffee communities move from the margins to the mainstream of the industry’s sustainability agenda in just a few short years?

Read more: <http://coffeelands.crs.org/2013/11/373-coffee-in-the-age-of-exploration/#more-5615>



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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