BREAKING: We’ve received a reliable tip this morning that a reputable Ethiopian-based “producer and developer of coffees of specific variety, locality and process” had an entire container – worth over $350,000 – of coffee stolen whilst in transit in Ethiopia. A number of stateside importers and green buyers were notified of the theft this morning.
This is just another dramatic example of theft at origin, a growing and disturbing trend for global coffee in 2011. Developing…
