By Claudia Carpenter Bloomberg News September 28, 2012 The International Coffee Organization is going ahead with plans to promote coffee consumption in developing countries as part of a global effort that almost doubled growth in demand in the past 10 years. Demand for arabica beans is already probably going to get a boost because of the increased prices of robusta, Roberio Oliveira Silva, executive director of the London-based group, told reporters in London today. Arabica beans have dropped 24 percent this year as robusta beans climbed 20 percent. “There will be an increase in arabica,” Silva said. Global coffee demand climbed an average 2.5 percent a year over the past 10 years, compared with 1.6 percent from 1990 to 1999, Silva said in a presentation dated this week for ICO meetings. The ICO wants to “decommoditize” coffee in growing countries in Africa and South America, according to Andrea Illy, chairman and chief executive officer of Trieste, Italy-based ...