Closing The Knowledge Gap Between Specialty Café & Farm
Your café offers customers coffee that you’ve carefully selected from various origins. Whether you roast it yourself or source it from a roaster, you’ve chosen...
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An early history of the C market: Exchanges and derivatives through history
In recent years, the coffee sector has rightly recognised sustainability as a key priority. However, for anybody who wants to be a part of making the supply chain more sustainable, learning more about commodities markets and the C market in particular is crucial. But as well as learning about these topics in detail, it’s also helpful to understand how and why they started. Commodities exchanges have been a part of… read more
In recent years, the coffee sector has rightly recognised sustainability as a key priority. However, for anybody who wants to be a part of making the supply chain more sustainable, learning more about commodities markets and the C market in… read more
What’s Keeping Producing Countries From Growing Coffee Consumption?
Increasing the volume of internal consumption is something all producing countries can benefit from. However, many of these countries also face several significant barriers, ranging...
The Importance of Growing Consumption in Producing Countries
Countries like Brazil, Colombia, and Guatemala are known for producing quality specialty coffees, sustaining local industries that employ millions and contributing to the economy. Despite...
Exploring The History of Honduran Coffee Production
Honduras is a prolific coffee-producing country, ranking fifth globally in terms of coffee production, in addition to being the largest producer in Central America and...
How Roasters & Producers Can Improve Green Bean Sampling
As a green coffee buyer, you’ll know that samples allow you to discover the qualities of a certain coffee batch, so you can assess whether...
The Emerging Specialty Coffee Origins to Pay Attention To
The global coffee market is constantly evolving. While coffee production is currently dominated by a select group of countries, sourcing coffee from emerging regions might...
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...
How Local Coffee Groups Drive Change in Chile, Mexico, & Peru
Every country has a coffee scene that is uniquely shaped by the people that live in it, as well as their preferences. This means that...
What to Consider When Developing a Sourcing Program
Developing an authentic green bean sourcing program will require you to consider several factors you might not have considered before. For starters, you’ll have a...
Speakers & Schedule Announced For Producer & Roaster Forum 2020
The months are ticking down until the fourth edition of the Producer & Roaster Forum (PRF), held in Copán, Honduras on the 26th and 27th...
PRF 2020 Producer Scholarships Seek to Improve on 2019
Across the world, conferences are constantly held on topics relevant to the coffee supply chain and its members. However, smallholder producers are usually missing from...
A Guide to Peru’s Coffee-Producing Regional Profiles
Peru is rich in diversity. From the Amazon jungle to golden beaches, from the soaring Andes mountain range to one of South America’s largest lakes,...
A Coffee Producer’s Guide to Negotiating
Coffee producers have long sat on the sidelines when negotiating with buyers, roasters, and exporters. However, times are changing. With a drop in international coffee...
How Packaging Material Impacts Green Coffee Quality Over Time
Sensorial degradation in green coffee can represent significant financial losses for producers, traders, and roasters. Yet while a certain degree of degradation over time may...
Staging a Coffee Comeback in Papua New Guinea
The once thriving coffee industry in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is ripe for renewal, and specialty coffee is on the menu as demand for the...
Why Caparaó, Brazil Is Winning Specialty Coffee Awards
Caparaó, Brazil has been increasingly present on specialty coffee shop menus. Producers are focusing on quality and, as a result, their coffees are ranking high...