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Coffee and Hope in Violence-Wracked Sulu

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Apr 26, 2012
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Turning beans into coffee is a unique process on Jolo, the violence-wracked main island of the Sulu Archipelago. Farmers put the beans on the road so that army trucks ferrying troops or transport jeeps run over them, acting as giant kneads to remove the pulp.

That is a far cry from the heyday of coffee production in the Philippines, which 200 years ago w…

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