Your morning caffeine fix is but a drop in the global bucket that makes coffee one of most traded commodities in the world along with petroleum. But with 100 million Americans like you drinking coffee every day, the bucket easily overflows to make the US the world’s top coffee consumer, according to the International Coffee Organization data used in the infographic. That’s enough to perk up a big chunk of our economy, or to be precise, $18 B spent for coffee last year. And it’s all because you love coffee. People drinking expensive coffee brands also seem to play their part in stimulating this market.

But how far down the supply funnel does your coffee dollar go? We went through a lot of data mining for sales and logisitcs of coffe so you can follow how coffee is made from your favorite house specialty blend to the farmer in a developing country struggling to make both ends meet. It’s a journey across social classes, lifestyles and cultures that will make you see coffee in a light that will certainly appeal to your emotions more. It’s billion-dollar businesses that run coffee in America. But it’s the small farmer in a developing country who starts it all.

Should you care for the farmer who grows your favorite coffee? Would you care even if you don’t know him?

Check this infographic and see how the two of you are connected in this multi-billion business:

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