Ingredients
What a cup of coffee costs before you buy it
Follow a cup backward and the price becomes a chain of costs, risks and bargaining power. Paying more at the counter does not tell us who gains.
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Articles on ingredients from The Supper Standard.
Ingredients
The chocolate bar has become a weather report
A cocoa-price shock travels through a crop, a marketing system and a factory before it reaches a chocolate bar. The same movement can mean relief at the supermarket and another uncertainty on the farm.
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Ingredients
The olive grove is learning a new definition of endurance
An olive tree's ability to survive a dry landscape is different from an orchard's ability to provide a dependable income. The changing climate reaches the grove through flowering, water, investment and the people who keep it productive.
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