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
James Harper is a Berlin-based freelance coffee journalist and the creator of the Filter Stories podcast.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
How to Open a Coffee Shop With Limited Resources
Are you considering opening your own independent coffee shop but have a small budget to work with? Or maybe you’ve just launched and are looking ...read more
An Alternative Specialty Coffee Shop Tour of Berlin, Germany
Berlin’s specialty coffee scene is exploding. There’s an overwhelming amount of places to get a great cup of coffee here, and everyone you ask will ...read more