Switzerland plans to abolish its emergency stockpile of coffee — a measure taken between the two World Wars — on the grounds that caffeine is not essential for survival. Almost 90 per cent of coffee is cultivated in developing economies, but its consumers are mostly in developed countries. Coffee may be a luxury for some, but for others it is a matter of life and death. Surprisingly, the piece seems to attach greater credibility to this statistically insignificant and non-representative sample survey than the large-scale NARSS survey. NARSS 2018-19 is the largest independent sanitation survey in the country to date, making it the most representative sanitation survey in India.

Source: The Telegraph April 21, 2019 09:42 UTC