Why we need to up Tea and Coffee production – Lawmaker

Metro Woman Marketplace: Happy coffee (Part 2).

Coca-Cola Co. agreed to buy the U.K. chain Costa Coffee for 3.9 billion pounds ($5.1 billion), stepping into a battle with Starbucks Corp. as it gains a global brand in hot drinks.

John Murphy, APAC group president at Coca-Cola, discusses the trade tensions between the U.S. and China, how it's impacting his business, the acquisition of Costa Coffee, his major areas of focus, their India strategy, their push into alcoholic drinks in Japan and where he's seeing the most growth.

Souleman Nsangou makes a small living selling instant coffee on the streets of Douala. Coffee beans are one of Cameroon's top exports - in demand across the world, but at home the returns are not often felt yet experts say the potential is great.

Why we need to up Tea and Coffee production - Lawmaker

Kenya's tea industry takes advantage of India-Pakistan's brewing tensions.

In Rwanda about 400,000 smallholder farmers produce coffee and depend on the crop's revenues for their livelihood. CNBC Africa's Fiona Muthoni traveled about 140 kilometres away from the capital city of Kigali on a quest to understand how the country’s coffee value chain can be improved.

Small Guatemalan coffee producers, who lived for years in the United States and were able to buy land in Guatemala to plant coffee upon their return, are thinking of trying to risk going back to the US illegally due to the fall of the international price of coffee.

Authorities say they have recovered the body of a coffee magnate from a river in southern India. V.G. Siddhartha went missing on Monday, sparking speculation about financial troubles.

Plateau's temperate and tropical weather condition makes it possible to produce all sorts of crops including exotic ones such as coffee. Coffee farmers in Plateau State believe the crop has huge potentials and when harnessed properly, could become an economic asset for the region. But this is hardly achievable because most of the farmers have to face several challenges including diseases, lack of off takers, insecurity or poor yields.

An Egyptian chef has set a new world record by using 7,260 cups full of coffee to to reproduce the famous Tutankhamun mask in the Egyptian Grand Musem in Giza.

Marijuana coffee is a hit with locals in Indonesia's Aceh province and buyers in other parts of the Southeast Asian archipelago, who pay 1.0 million rupiah ($75) for a kilo of it. But this is risky business in Aceh, where even drinking alcohol or kissing in public can earn you a painful whipping under its strict Islamic law.