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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.
Supporting Smallholder Farmers: Are Coffee Sector Programs Actually Improving Incomes?
Smallholder coffee farmers face unique challenges in improving their coffee production and productivity. Recognizing this, the coffee sector has rolled out a variety of interventions and programs over the past decade (or more) aimed at enhancing productivity, profitability, and eventually, the income of these smallholder farmers. But have these programs worked?
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
Finding your way around in the Processing Revolution | Mario Fernández
Finding your way around in the Processing Revolution | Cómo orientarse dentro de la Revolución de los Procesos
Better Returns for Coffee Producers | Panel
Bridget Carrington, International Coffee Consultant, Emilio Lopez Diaz with Finca El Manzano, Eva Muthuuri of Eva's Coffee, and Stean Fasol of Stean's Beans explore different strategies for economic resilience that producers can employ to insulate themselves from the fluctuations of a volatile market.
La economía del café: Comprendiendo la rentabilidad a nivel de plantaciones | 25
A la conclusión de Avance (la conferencia inaugural sobre sostenibilidad de la Specialty Coffee Association y primer evento de ese tipo en origen) en la ciudad de Guatemala el pasado mes de octubre, se pidió a los representantes allí presentes que indicaran el área de mayor prioridad dentro de la cadena de valor del café. Más del 90% de los representantes se decantaron por la «rentabilidad para los agricultores».
El mercado de cafés especiales y la crisis de precios
La propagación del virus COVID-19 en todo el mundo ha causado gran incertidumbre, aislamiento y ansiedad. ¿Cual es la experiencia de los productores de café? ¿Qué información de mercado existe para productores medianos y grandes, organizaciones cúpulas y gremiales, cooperativas y los tostadores, y cafeterías en países productores?
The Economics of Coffee: Understanding Profitability at Farm Level | 25, Issue 3
As Avance–the Specialty Coffee Association’s inaugural sustainability conference and first ever event at origin–drew to a close in Guatemala City in October, delegates were asked to indicate what area they most prioritized among coffee’s value chain. More than 90% of participants stood next to the sign reading “farmer profitability.”
Farm Profitability and Prosperity | Part 3
Vera Espindola Rafael, Paul Hicks, Peter Roberts, and Ivania Rivera continue the conversation in the third installment of a webinar series addressing the challenges facing coffee farmers and the sustainability of coffee.
Coffee Prices and Farm Profitability | Part 2
Ashley Prentice, Janina Grabs, and Ed Canty continue the conversation around the profitability of coffee farming. Do increased yields consistently correlate to profitability on coffee farms? Do price premiums for coffee taste quality justify farmer investments?
The Profitability of Coffee Farming | Part 1
Do increased yields consistently correlate to profitability on coffee farms? Do price premiums for coffee taste quality justify farmer investments? What strategies are producers and buyers using to address farm profitability? What research and data is needed to support farmers and their businesses? Hear from Vera Espindola Rafael, Alex Keller, Aleco Chigounis, and Edie Baker.
Farm Profitability Q&A | Janina Grabs
Janina Grabs, a postdoctoral researcher of the political economy of sustainable commodity production, answers audience questions generated from a webinar series on farm profitability and prosperity.
Farm Profitability Q&A | Ed Canty
Ed Canty, General Manager of Cooperative Coffees, answers audience questions generated from a webinar series on farm profitability and prosperity.
Farm Profitability Q&A | Ashely Prentice
Ashley Prentice, a third-generation coffee producer from Guatemala with a Masters in Coffee Science and Economics, answers audience questions generated from a webinar series on farm profitability and prosperity.
Coffee Production Costs & Farm Profitability
This strategic literature review by Dr. Christophe Montagnon suggests that increasing yield typically increases the cost per hectare to produce coffee, especially in the short term, so may decrease a farm’s profitability.
Assessing & Addressing Smallholder Profitability Constraints
Dig into a profitability analysis for one farmer group in Yepocapa, Guatemala, to better understand profitability constraints for smallholders. Hear from Taya Brown and Ryan Chipman.
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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 →