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<\/p>\nIn this book, Jonathan Kingsman examines the history of nine commodity crops and interviews the merchants and traders who manage their journey to your kitchen. He writes of the challenges in their daily jobs and the significant trends that will shape their futures. \u00a0In particular, he focuses on the opportunities traders face as we decarbonise our agricultural supply systems.<\/p>\n
This book is designed for individuals seeking to gain a deeper understanding of agricultural commodity trading and the food supply chain. It contains interviews with some of the world\u2019s top traders and a contribution from the University of Erasmus.<\/p>\n
Commodity Crops & The Merchants Who Trade Them<\/strong> is available now on Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n This book is the story of a journey \u2013 the voyage of the humble coffee bean through time, space and form.<\/p>\n Your journey begins with dancing goats in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. It quickly moves on to religious conflict in the port of Mocca, which at one time was the world\u2019s only source of coffee. Western countries soon entered the scene, spreading precious coffee plants throughout their colonies, first to Java and Ceylon, then to the Caribbean, Africa and Central America. It is a tale of romance and intrigue, but one with an underbelly of suffering and exploitation whose dark history still shapes the world today.<\/p>\n The second stage of your journey begins in the coffee plantations and ends in your local coffee shop. On the way, the author will introduce you to the growers, millers, merchants, roasters, and brand owners who make this miraculous journey possible. They will share with you their love of the world\u2019s favourite drink. They will explain how our little bean changes in form from bright red coffee cherries to light green beans to dark brown, aromatic roasted coffee. They will also inform you about how they are enhancing the coffee business. It is a fascinating story.<\/p>\n This book will widen your knowledge if you are already in the coffee business. If you want to learn more about the coffee business, this book will be your \u2018go-to\u2019 source. And if you enjoy coffee, this book will add a new dimension to your daily \u2018cuppa\u2019.<\/p>\n Crop to Cup – Conversations over Coffee <\/strong>is available on Amazon<\/a> as a paperback or an e-book<\/p>\n In 1979, Dan Morgan, a journalist with the Washington Post, wrote Merchants of Grain, a definitive history of the international grain trade. In the 40 years since Dan\u2019s book was published, the grain markets have changed almost beyond recognition. So, too, have the merchants of grain. Once shadowy figures, grain merchants have now come out of the shadows.<\/p>\n Almost everything you eat or drink today will contain something that has been bought, stored, transported, processed, shipped, distributed, or sold by one of the seven giants of the agricultural supply chain. The media often refers to them as the ABCD group of international grain-trading companies, with ABCD standing for ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Dreyfus. The acronym, however, overlooks the other three giants of the food supply: Glencore, COFCO International, and Wilmar. Together, they handle 50 per cent of the international trade in grain and oilseeds.<\/p>\n In this book\u2019s series of exclusive and unprecedented interviews, CEOs and senior traders from these seven giants describe in their own words how the agricultural markets are changing and how they are adapting to those changes.<\/p>\n This is the inside story of the grain market and the seven companies at the centre of the world\u2019s food supply.<\/p>\n Out of the Shadows – The New Merchants of Grain<\/strong> is available on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n In this far-reaching and wide-ranging book, Jonathan dispels many myths about sugar and commodity markets. He carefully examines human rights, environmental sustainability, speculation, food prices, commodity trading, market manipulation, government intervention, and health, providing some surprising conclusions. Anyone interested in how their food is produced and how it arrives on their plate or into their cereal bowl will enjoy this book.<\/p>\n With contributions from, or interviews with: \u2022 Isara Vongkusolkit, Sunny Verghese, Robert Kuok, Chris Mahoney, Greg Page, Ralph Potter, and Sven Sielhorst.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/commodityconversations.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/new-commodities-ebooks.jpg?resize=300%2C274&ssl=1\")
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