In the U.S., however, that same pound of coffee commands a much higher price: $26 for a bag of Starbucks' roasted Shirkina Sun-Dried Sidamo. The U.S. company says Ethiopia should instead seek ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp. and the Ethiopian government reached an agreement that settles a dispute over the country's bid to trademark its coffee beans, according a joint statement ...

Homes in Sidamo, one of Ethiopia's prominent coffee regions, dot the landscape. Ethiopians have been making coffee longer than anyone else in the world and coffee here has a unique taste because ...

What does Ethiopia want? The Ethiopian government applied to trademark its most famous coffee-bean names — Harar, Sidamo and Yirgacheffe — in the U.S. last year. The Ethiopian Intellectual ...

Oxfam said the U.S. coffee shop giant, which had turnover of $7.8 billion in the year to Oct. 1, prevented Ethiopia from securing trademark protection for two of its best-known beans, Sidamo and ...

"Ethiopia is firmly committed to work in partnership with all international specialty coffee companies and distributors of its fine coffees, including Harar, Sidamo and Yirgacheffe," said Getachew ...

British charity Oxfam accused Starbucks last month of trying to stop Ethiopia trademarking its best-known coffee beans — Sidamo and Harar — and denying farmers potential income of more than ...

The new study concludes that the effects of climate change will be so severe in some of Ethiopia's coffee-growing areas, such as the eastern part of the Sidamo region, that they won't be suitable ...

who traveled to Sidamo, one of Ethiopia's main coffee-producing regions, to experience the area's deeply ingrained coffee culture. On her visit with Sidamo coffee farmer Bekele Erango and his ...