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    Perfect Daily Grind > Articles by: James Harper
James Harper

James Harper is a Berlin-based freelance coffee journalist and the creator of the Filter Stories podcast.

December 16, 2020

“Crash Testing” Coffee Hybrids’ Resistance To Adverse Growing Conditions

According to research conducted in 2016, within the next 30 years, climate change could remove more than 50% of the world’s suitable coffee-growing land. A ...read more
Written by James Harper
November 4, 2020

Creating A Sustainable Model For Coffee Replanting

It’s no secret that there are a number of challenges confronting smallholder coffee growers around the world. Firstly, climate change is reducing the amount of ...read more
Written by James Harper
Producer pouring green coffee beans in a jute bag
August 4, 2020

How Can Coffee Traders Raise Brand Awareness?

The Ethiopian Exporter’s Association represents almost 100 green coffee exporters. The question is: how many of them can you name?  Exporters and importers invest millions ...read more
Written by James Harper
Prucer and buyer checking dried coffee cherries
June 16, 2020

Overcoming Logistical Hurdles to Strengthening Direct Trade Relationships

Direct trade establishes direct, mutually beneficial relationships between roasters and producers, cutting out all or some of the middlemen usually involved in the coffee supply ...read more
Written by James Harper
June 9, 2020

Producer Perspectives on Farmgate Prices & Technology

Increased coffee supply chain transparency could help farmers secure better coffee prices. However, few transparency efforts extend back to this group, which means that once ...read more
Written by James Harper
Ripe coffee cherries in a branch
May 18, 2020

COVID-19 & The Coffee Trade: Exploring The Short- & Long-Term Impact

Containers, cash flow, and congestion: COVID-19 is causing unprecedented chaos in the coffee industry. Lee este artículo en español COVID-19 & The Coffee Trade: Exploring ...read more
Written by James Harper
Person carryig a jute bag with green coffee beans
April 9, 2020

Coffee Pricing: Why We Need to Know Farmgate And Not Just FOB

What did the farmer who grew your coffee get paid?  Finding an answer to this simple question is challenging. So challenging, in fact, that most ...read more
Written by James Harper
March 25, 2020

Coffee Origins: A Guide to Mexico

On small, mountainous farms run mainly by indigenous producers, you’ll find an often-overlooked gem growing strong: Mexican coffee. When people list famous coffee origins, Mexico ...read more
Written by James Harper
March 4, 2020

How Can Roasters Target Luxury & High-End Markets?

While British high street coffee shops are criticized by politicians and newspapers for selling coffees at £2.35 (US $2.56), just up the road in the ...read more
Written by James Harper
February 12, 2020

Blockchain & Coffee: Separating The Marketing From The Reality

Blockchain. Bitcoin. Supply chains. These are some of the many buzzwords passing across people’s lips, often interspersed with the adjectives “revolutionary” and “game-changing”.  Frankly, it ...read more
Written by James Harper
December 5, 2019

How Education Creates Opportunities in Coffee-Producing Regions

Social programmes, such as arts initiatives, are working to offer young people in coffee-producing communities better education and better work opportunities as they move into ...read more
Written by James Harper
View of a city in yemen
December 4, 2019

Coffee’s Role in The Face of Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis

“Yemen has become the largest humanitarian crisis in the world,” states the UN. It is also a country that has exported coffee globally for almost ...read more
Written by James Harper
Drying patio for honey process
November 28, 2019

How Can Roasters Market Sustainable Coffee?

Sourcing sustainable coffee helps you stay true to your vision and support a better supply chain – but how do you convince customers to buy ...read more
Written by James Harper
Hand Holdin ripe coffee cherries
September 30, 2019

Pricing Coffee: Why Do Yemeni Beans Cost More?

Yemeni coffees can make headlines for their prices. And understandably so: they often sell for upwards of US $60 per kilo green. But why does ...read more
Written by James Harper
View of a Nicaraguan city
July 16, 2019

How Nicaragua’s Political Climate Is Impacting Its Coffee Industry

Nicaragua has a long history of growing coffee and an economy that is strongly linked to the crop. But recent political unrest is impacting the ...read more
Written by James Harper
Coffee producers from Yemen
June 27, 2019

Tracing Coffee’s Roots Back to Al-Mokha, Yemen

At one point in time, almost every coffee drank in Europe was from Yemen. Nowadays, Yemeni coffee exports account for less than 1% of global ...read more
Written by James Harper

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