1. Even an innocent-looking cup of coffee creates soil erosion because of over-production on coffee plantations, and chronic water pollution during processing. 2. And later I did visit the volcanoes and the mountains, laced with gorgeous coffee plantations. 3. Bankers in Cantrall are nervously eyeing hog farms the way bankers in Rio de Janeiro are anxiously examining coffee plantations. 4. According to guidebooks, Boquete, in the shadow of Baru, was filled with gardens and flowers, surrounded by lush coffee plantations and vegetable farms. 5. Coffee plantations stood idle, shops and factories closed and the tourist industry disintegrated as roads crumbled and game herds were slaughtered for meat. 6. Forest land in the Caribbean and Latin America is being logged, burned for charcoal, and cleared for coffee plantations and other agricultural uses at a rapid rate. 7. He lived as a youngster in Kenya, where his father ran a coffee plantation, then returned to England. 8. He was hiding in the coffee plantation where they lived. 9. Her library research had led her to a site that turned out to have long since been converted from jungle to coffee plantations. 10. However, modern coffee plantations often grow coffee in the sun, which produces higher yields. |