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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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Getting to Know the North American Coffee Market: 2022
This session pairs high-quality national data with the personal experiences of specialty coffee professionals for an overview of coffee consumption in North America in 2022: who is drinking coffee, how their preferences are changing, and which companies are growing fastest to meet that demand.
Coffee Sourcing and Production Trends 2021-2022, Revisited
The Algrano market report is a once-annual analysis of coffee sourcing and production trends, and to date has focused on the European market. Over the course of one hour, the panelists discuss how the trends they identified at the end of 2021 and at the beginning of 2022 have evolved over the course of the past year, and they provide insight into what these evolutions might mean for the coffee sector going forward.
Getting to Know the European Coffee Market: 2022
This session paired high-quality national data with the personal experiences of specialty coffee professionals for an overview of coffee consumption in the UK and Europe in 2022: who is drinking coffee, how their preferences are changing, and which companies are growing fastest to meet that demand.
What Would It Cost? | 25
Professors CARLOS CARPIO, PhD and LUIS SANDOVAL, PhD worked with BRENDA MAMANI, MSc to ask: what are the living wages in El Salvador and Honduras, and how would current total costs and profitability of coffee production be affected if farmworkers were paid living wages?
In Conversation with Darrin Daniel
What impact does the Alliance for Coffee Excellence and the associated Cup of Excellence competition have on coffee farmers and roasters?
Innovations with Liberica Coffee
A conversation between Emi-Beth Quantson and Sangai Brisbane of Brisco Natural Coffee.
Beneficios Y Oportunidades Para la Industria de Cafés Especiales en Colombia
Elena Lokteva del equipo de liderazgo de CRG conversa con Viviana Navarez del Parque tecnológico de Innovación de Café - Tecnicafe en Cauca, para conocer su modelo y propuesta de valor para el desarrollo de la industria de cafés especiales en Colombia.
Understanding Consumer Perception and Desirable Product Attributes in ChocolateA New Framework for Defining Specialty Coffee
Dr. Allison Brown conducted a mixed-methods study using focus groups and projective mapping, creating a Desirable Chocolate Attribute Concept Map.
Exploring Gender Equity in Coffee's Value Chain
Learn about The Partnership for Gender Equity in this conversation between Kimberly Easson and Freda Yuan.
Starting and Growing an Indigenous Coffee Chain in Nigeria
A conversation with Princess Adeyinka Tekenah and Jen Apodaca.
The Global Impact of Brazil's Coffee Frost
Freda Yuan chats with Ricardo Pereira, who provided his experience from the point of view of a local owner, exporter, and importer, sharing the harsh impact of the frosts and what we, as a community, can do to help.
Fabricantes de tostadores locales
Recomendaciones para iniciadores en el tueste, el mercado en Mexico y consejos.
More Equitable Value Distribution Through Profit Sharing
In conversation, learn from two coffee entrepreneurs who both (independently!) stumbled upon the profit-sharing business model and use it to get as much profit as possible back to origin, while still making ends meet.
All About Robusta
Si alguna vez te has preguntando que es el café ROBUSTA, este es el momento. Entrevistaremos a Sylvia Gutierrez, catadora e instructora certificada de robusta QR por el CQI. Ella nos platicará de la especie poco conocida para los consumidores pero muy solicitada por la industria.
Beneficios Y Oportunidades Para la Industria de Cafés Especiales en Colombia
Elena Lokteva del equipo de liderazgo de CRG conversa con Viviana Navarez del Parque tecnológico de Innovación de Café - Tecnicafe en Cauca, para conocer su modelo y propuesta de valor para el desarrollo de la industria de cafés especiales en Colombia.
Fabricantes de tostadores locales
Recomendaciones para iniciadores en el tueste, el mercado en Mexico y consejos.
Direct Trade Impact Studies | Shauna Alexander
Direct Trade has been Stumptown’s sourcing philosophy for nearly 20 years. During that time, the company observed positive impacts of that model at coffee farm and community levels — but also recognized the limits of its observations.
Confronting Tomorrow's Risks Today | Alexandra Tuinstra
Confronting Tomorrow's Risks Today: Key Strategies for Reimagining Resilience in the Coffee Value Chain
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.
Better Returns for Coffee Producers | Bridget Carrington
In 2019 coffee prices reached 12 year lows and although the last year has seen a welcome reversal of this trend, producers need to find ways of improving their resilience to market forces beyond their control.
Aprender
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 →