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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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