There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
HETERONOMY
Etymology
Noun
heteronomy (usually uncountable, plural heteronomies)
The political subjection of a community to the rule of another power or to an external law.
The state of being beholden to external influences.
(biology) The condition of being heteronomous.
Antonyms
• autonomy
Source: Wiktionary
Het`er*on"o*my, n.
1. Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.
2. (Metaph.)
Definition: A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires. Krauth-Fleming.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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