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Coffee's Essential Worker Community: An Action Oriented Path to Building Back Better with Living Wage and Living Income
Living wage and income have long been gaining steam among the media, global governments, sustainability standards, businesses, and a wealth of other actors, including consumers. But the necessity of ensuring a basic but decent living is more stark than ever in an age where vulnerability abounds.
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Five Key Takeaways from the National Coffee Data Trends Study: Specialty Coffee Breakout Report
The National Coffee Data Trends Study is packed with information: conducted twice a year, the report tracks coffee consumer trends, attitudes, and behavior. What are five key things that the specialty coffee industry should pay attention to specifically? Learn more from the SCA’s Research Manager, Katie von der Lieth →
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Understanding Sustainability Interventions: An Assessment of Experimental Evidence in the Coffee Sector
Economists DAVIDE DEL PRETE and ROCCO MACCHIAVELLO recently completed a literature review of sustainability interventions for the Coffee Science Foundation; here, with PETER GIULIANO, they summarize its findings.
Supply Chain Sustainability: Shifting from “Can” to “Must”
SARAH CHARLES, writer, Communications Officer at the International Trade Centre, and author of a recent dissertation on mandatory supply chain due diligence, outlines the history, opportunities, and challenges of regulatory sustainability approaches while offering a path forward for coffee businesses grappling with the shift from a voluntary to a regulatory approach.
Carbono y café
La amenaza del cambio climático, así como el impacto que se espera que tenga en los rendimientos de café en todo el mundo, preocupa especialmente al sector mundial del café en 2022.Este informe tiene como objetivo destacar algunas de las herramientas, estrategias y buenas prácticas clave que los actores de la industria del café pueden adoptar para lograr la reducción de las emisiones de carbono, así como para fomentar un debate más específico sobre métodos y resultados verificables, con el fin de aumentar la acción probada y positiva sobre el cambio climático en todo el sector del café
Carbon and Coffee
The ongoing threat of climate change, and the impact it is expected to have on coffee yields worldwide, is of particular concern to the global coffee sector in 2022. This report aims to highlight some of the key tools, strategies, and best practices that coffee industry actors could adopt to achieve carbon emission reduction as well as encourage more targeted conversation about verifiable methods and outcomes, in order to increase proven and positive action on climate change throughout the entire coffee sector
What We Know (and Need to Know) About Climate's Impact on Coffee Quality
Corresponding author Dr. Selena Ahmed outlines the findings of a systematic review of research conducted to better understand climate change’s impact on coffee quality, what prompted the review, and what we need to research next.
What is Quality? Implications for New Variety Development
Hanna Neuschwander of World Coffee Research shares an update on WCR’s 2015 F1 Hybrid candidates through the specific lens of quality.
Climate Change, Adaptation, and Coffee Quality
Dr. Selena Ahmed shares the findings of a recent meta-analysis, the first of its kind, exploring the impact of climate change on coffee quality.
Price, Climate, COVID, Frost: What Should Buyers & Sellers Ask? | Jorge Cuevas
The challenges presented to growers by COVID in 2020 have been compounded by shipping bottlenecks in 2021.
The Effects of Frost in Brazil & Container Shortages | Anike Ejlers Wolthers
When frost hit some of Brazil's major coffee-growing regions in July of 2021, the price for coffee on the commodity futures market - the "C" price - rose immediately and precipitously.
El sabor del cambio climático| 25
Hay muchas tazas de té que resultan memorables. Para mí, las tazas más memorables son aquellas que cambian tu forma de ver el mundo, las tazas que incitan a la acción y dan forma y sentido a lo que hacemos. Hace más de una década desde que una taza de té verde Pu Erh pusiese en marcha un viaje de investigación en el que me propuse examinar los efectos del cambio climático en la calidad del café.
Water Security and Coffee: Protecting a Critical Resource
We face a global water crisis. Rapid economic development combined with exponential population growth over the past century are increasing demands on water resources, while environmental degradation threatens water supplies.
Coffee and Forests
Ellie Hudson, Kim Elena Ionescu, Bambi Semroc, Niels Naak, and Valerie Beard discuss coffee and forests.
The Taste of Climate Change: Sustainability Lessons from Tea Farmers | 25, Issue 4
The changes Dr. Selena Ahmed measured in the amounts of tea secondary metabolites correspond to the sensory perceptions of farmer, consumer, and standardized taste panelists during our taste tests; the research also documents a decline of up to 50% in household income from tea sales.
Climate Change & Coffee: Acting Globally and Locally
That the climate has changed, is changing, and will continue to change is not in question; the question is what we should be doing, as an industry, to make sure coffee survives and thrives as the production landscape shifts.
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Un caso de negocio para incrementar el consumo de café especial en países productores
Las oportunidades adicionales para crear y capturar más valor son clave para que los productores reduzcan el riesgo. Por lo tanto, es vital comprometerse con estrategias que les permitan a los productores crear (más) valor y obtener un mayor y mejor parte del precio al consumidor →