VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY CENTER for LATIN AMERICAN and IBERIAN STUDIES HOMEPAGE

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contact ICS at
ics@vanderbilt.edu

The Vanderbilt Institute for Coffee Studies is dedicated

  to investigate the health effects of coffee consumption, including the action of various compounds found in coffee and potential therapeutic uses based on the pharmacology of its chemical constituents

  to promote anthropological, historical, sociological, literary, and economic research into coffee production and consumption

  to disseminate research findings and promote educational exchange and economic development programs with partner nations

     The ICS was initially established in 1999 in the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center with a grant from a consortium of coffee-producing countries (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Guatemala and a coalition of Central American nations) under the auspices of the Association of Coffee Producing Countries (ACPC), the National Coffee Association of the USA, and the All Japan Coffee Association. Subsequently, the work of the ICS has also received support from the International Coffee Organization and the USA corporate sector (NCA, Kraft Foods, Nestle, Sara Lee, Starbucks).

     In 2007, in order to expand its mission beyond the biomedical aspects of coffee to also include the historical, literary, sociological, and economic importance of this crop, the second most important commodity in the world behind oil, the ICS moved to the Vanderbilt Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies.

Vanderbilt University Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies
Buttrick Hall 230, VU Station B #351806, Nashville, TN 37235-1806
615.322.2527, Fax 615.322.2305
clais@vanderbilt.edu, www.vanderbilt.edu/clais