jedzenie: History of coffee

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The history of coffee spans many centuries. Wild coffee plants originated in Ethiopia, while the beverage itself has its roots in Yemen, where it was harvested, roasted, and brewed; Sufi Muslims in the 15th century used it to aid concentration during night prayers. From Yemen, coffee spread to Mecca and the wider Arabian Peninsula, and by the early 16th century it had reached Cairo, Damascus, and Istanbul. Debates over its permissibility arose in Muslim society, but it soon became a central part of urban social life. Through Mediterranean trade routes, coffee entered Europe in the mid-16th century through Italy and other Mediterranean regions. Coffee houses were established in Western Europ…

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With a little hydrogen, the word's largest pyridines producer becomes the world's largest piperidines producer.

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The economy of Brazil has changed over the course of the country's history. Portugal, which first colonized the area in the 16th century, enforced a colonial pact with Brazil, an imperial mercantile policy, which drove development for the subsequent three centuries. Independence was achieved in 1822. Slavery was fully abolished in 1888. Important structural transformations began in the 1930s, when important steps were taken to change Brazil into a modern, industrialized economy. A socioeconomic transformation took place rapidly after World War II. In the 1940s, only 31.3% of Brazil's 41.2 million inhabitants resided in towns and cities; by 1991, of the country's 146.9 million inhabitants 75…

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The agricultural sector in Brazil is historically one of the principal bases of Brazil's economy. In 2024, Brazil was the second-biggest grain exporter in the world, with 19% of the international market share, and the fourth overall grain producer. Brazil is also the world's largest exporter of many popular agriculture commodities like coffee, soybeans, organic honey, beef, poultry, cane sugar, soybean meal, açai berry, orange juice, yerba mate, cellulose, tobacco, and the second biggest exporter of cotton, corn, pork, and ethanol. The country also has a significant presence as producer and exporter of rice, wheat, eggs, refined sugar, soybean oil, cocoa, beans, nuts, cassava, sisal fiber,…

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This is a list of countries by coffee production, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for 2023. This data covers the production of green coffee beans, the primary ingredient in the production of processed coffee. Roasting and packaging of ground coffee often takes place after it has been exported from the producing nation; see the separate list of countries by coffee exports. Coffee is a cash crop in many areas, with the amount produced for export significantly in excess of local demand. Several of these countries maintain substantial supply-chain relations with the world's largest coffeehouse chains and enterprises. Often these coffeehouse chains pay a premium ab…

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Brazil has a diversified mixed economy. It is the largest in Latin America, the Southern Hemisphere and the second in Americas, in nominal terms. As of 2026, it is an upper-middle income and developing economy with the second largest GDP in the Americas in nominal and purchasing power parity terms. It is ranked as the tenth largest economy in the world in nominal terms, and the 8th largest in PPP terms. In 2024, according to Forbes, Brazil was the 7th largest country in the world by number of billionaires. Brazil is one of the ten chief industrial states in the world according to International Labour Organization. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Brazil's nominal GDP was…

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Brazil produces about a third of the world's coffee, making the country by far the world's largest producer. Coffee plantations, covering some 27,000 km2 (10,000 sq mi), are mainly located in the southeastern states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Espírito Santo where the environment and climate provide ideal growing conditions. Brazilian coffee prospered since the early 19th century, when immigrants came to work in the coffee plantations.