Coffee Resource Links - Coffee Information

National Geographic - The fundamentals on coffee. A great site.

Vanderbilt University for Coffee - The Vanderbilt Institute for Coffee Studies is dedicated: to investigate the health effects of coffee consumption, including the action of various compounds found in coffee and potential therapeutic uses based on the pharmacology of its chemical constituents, to promote anthropological, historical, sociological, literary, and economic research into coffee production and consumption,
to disseminate research findings and promote educational exchange and economic development programs with partner nations.

Wikipedia - Free Encyclopedia's article on 'Coffee'

SCAA - The SCAA is the trade association for the specialty coffee industry, one of the fastest-growing food industries in the world.

National Coffee Association - NCA has helped American coffee companies through some of the most volatile periods in the nation's history, including two world wars, a depression, a cold war and numerous frosts, strikes and cartels, not to mention a wide range of consumer trends in the U.S. coffee market.

Shade-Grown Coffee - Coffee's Connection to Birds -On traditional coffee plantations, coffee shrubs are grown under a canopy of trees, the layers and diversity of which offer shelter and food for wild birds.

USAID Supports Coffee Growers Around the Globe - USAID Coffee Activities work to create sustainable smallholder coffee systems, which provide significant income, employment, social, environmental, and consumer benefits. Where potential exists for farmers to effectively compete within the coffee sector, USAID is working to improve local capacity to produce and effectively market high quality coffee thereby increasing the price farmers earn for their product.

Coffee Commodity Page - Horticultural & Tropical Products Division. FAS Attaché Reports - Search through the country reports prepared by FAS attaches covering nearly 130 countries

Coffee Resources for home espresso - Espresso is an approach to extracting flavor from coffee beans. The basic principles are to extract only the best part, using water which is not quite boiling and under a lot of pressure.

Jamaican Coffee - The Chemistry of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee