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Coffee's transformation from an obscure Ethiopian highland shrub into the second most traded commodity on Earth - surpassed in transaction volume only by crude petroleum - has been mediated by a psychoactive alkaloid, caffeine, whose capacity to antagonise adenosine receptors in the central nervous system, thereby…

• Which crop's mechanisation of a specific processing stage had the perverse effect of massively increasing rather than reducing the demand for forced human labour?
• Which crop's manufacturers were party to the largest financial settlement in the history of civil legal proceedings?