New research on the commodity coffee market in Uganda finds that when prices percolate, coffee windfalls don’t fully reach the growers

Can a machine taste coffee" The question has plagued scientists studying the caffeinated beverage for decades. Fortunately, researchers in Switzerland can now answer with a resounding “yes.” The study on their coffee-tasting machine is scheduled for the March 1 issue of ACS’ Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal.

With prices of gourmet coffee approaching sticker-shock levels, scientists in Illinois are reporting development of a method to “fingerprint” coffee to detect when corn has been mixed in to short-change customers. Their study is in the Aug. 8 issue of ACS’s Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly journal.

A Cameroonian coffee official is looking for American investors to help promote his country's coffee in the United States. Mongwe Christopher Mbah is the general manager of the main cooperative coffee marketing organization in northwest Cameroon.