If you’re ever having a flat day, this girl here is the cure; a self confessed ‘acquired taste’ I would order in double quantities. If you need to amplify your existing good looks, Phoebe is your girl – http://www.phoebetaylor.com. Infrequent local ‘laptop parties’ in cafes for the unconventional working week is our thing.

14:05 Monday April 24, 2017

Mosaic Clapton, London

Facts: Most of the world’s coffee is produced in developing countries and smallholders produce the majority of the world’s coffee.
Coffee is grown in over 70 countries.
125 million people worldwide are dependent on coffee for their livelihoods. Brazil is one of the top three coffee producing countries, yet in 2014, nearly 8% of Brazil’s population were living at or below the World Bank absolute poverty line of $1.90 per day or £1.51.
Smallholder coffee farmers in three Central American countries were found to have no guarantee of food security for 3-4 months every year. Food can be so scarce farmers have named the period Los Meses Flacos (the thin months) in Nicaragua.
In 2014 coffee had a global export value of $30.8 billion, roughly half the GDP of Kenya.
In 2014 the UK was the world’s tenth largest coffee importer by value.
Fairtrade coffee is grown in 30 countries.
Fairtrade represents roughly 812,500 small-scale coffee farmers which are members of 445 producer organisations.
In the UK, we drink approximately 55 million cups of coffee per day.