In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Brazil was the world's biggest producer of this crop and effectively controlled its trade. After 1950, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia and later Vietnam emerged as major producers, with Vietnam overtaking Colombia in 1999. Which crop is this?

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coffee. The history of coffee traces the crop from its Ethiopian origins through the Arab world and into a colonial commodity. Brazil dominated global production for over a century, and Colombia rose alongside it before Vietnam's arrival reshaped the market in the late 1990s.