coffee cup Hard to see this in Joseph's small picture. Did you know that coffee grows on big bushes and the fruit is a bright red fleshy berry? Inside the flesh is the bean which people dry, roast and grind up to make the drink. Coffee originally came from this part of Africa (Ethiopia) but is now grown all over the tropical world as a 'cash crop'. A 'cash crop' is one which is grown to sell and make money, not for local people to eat. In Brazil (for example), big landowners and companies grow huge amounts of coffee, soybeans and sugarcane as cash crops but millions of poor people have no land and no way to grow food or earn money.