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 ...

Ethiopia's intellectual property office said Starbucks had still not recognised Ethiopia's ownership of the Sidamo, Harar and Yirgacheffe names, despite its offer of a royalty-free licensing agreement ...

But the new agreement acknowledges Ethiopian ownership of popular coffee designations such as Yirgacheffe, Harrar and Sidamo, regardless of whether they are registered or not. It will also allow ...

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 ...

using a trademark and licensing strategy to try to increase the margins received by Ethiopian producers for their coffee. Trademarks are being sought across the world for the Harar, 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 ...

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 ...

The new Dilla Coffee Roasters production site is run by Ethiopian immigrants and third-generation coffee growers Kabede Degefu, and Simon Sima. Kabede is a former engineer. His brother ...

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 ...