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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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It’s All in the Mind(set): Understanding the “Climate Justice” Approach
There are so many possible interpretations of sustainability, with some of the more familiar driven by a particular mode of thinking or focus on a particular angle of such a complicated topic. In this series, SCA Sustainability Director, ANDRÉS MONTENEGRO, explores different sustainability frameworks in relation to the SCA’s sustainability agenda of equitable value distribution, beginning with “climate justice.”
Coffee and a Doughnut: Understanding “Circular Economy” Frameworks
In the second in a series of features on sustainability frameworks and their relationship to the SCA’s sustainability agenda of equitable value distribution, SCA Sustainability Director ANDRÉS MONTENEGRO explains the concept of the circular economy through the use of a doughnut-and-coffee metaphor and highlights an upcoming seminar at Re:co Symposium in Portland designed to help participants apply its principles to their own work.
How Do Cuppers Cup? | 25, Issue 18
Dr. JORGE BERNY and Dr. MARIO FERNÁNDEZ-ALDUENDA share initial results of a collaborative study examining how cuppers cup and exploring the potential impacts of a proposed component of the reengineered cupping protocol.
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
Understanding Standards
Dr. Mario R. Fernández-Alduenda explains the checks and balances of the SCA’s new standards development system as a tool to create value for the community.
From Procurement to Cobranding: A Path to Better Value Distribution
Explore how traditional transaction concepts, centered only on quality and delivery, limit the capacity of our industry to generate and better distribute value.
Creating Shared Value for Companies and Smallholders
Melissa Schweisguth shares examples of the work done by United States Agency for International Development in the coffee sector.
Digitalization: Extracting More Than Coffee | 25, Issue 15
Elisa Criscione examines digitalization in coffee and suggests a shift in the current data collection model that could help it become a tool for more equitable value distribution.
Appraising Specialty Coffee Attributes
Dr. Mario R. Fernández-Alduenda offers thoughts on how we can integrate avances in sensory and coffee science into our new understanding of specialty coffee.
Verified Living Income: Transforming Procurement for Improved Farmer Livelihoods
How can we know we’re paying an equitable price for coffee? Grayson Caldwell explores the idea of verified living income.
Critical Collaboration: It's Not Enough to Just Pay Farmers More
Jeanine Niyonzima-Aroian shares a business model to help build more sustainable communities.
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.
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.
Coffee’s Essential Worker Community | Re:co 2020
Can the living income and the living wage movements help us all to “build back better” after the COVID-19 pandemic?
Exploring the Economics of the Supply Chain
Tim Chapdelaine, Heather Perry, Peter Giuliano, and Heather Ward discuss the illustrative economic outlook of coffee’s supply chain.
Value Creation and Equitable Distribution
Ellie Hudson and Kim Elena Ionescu discuss value creation and equitable distribution.
The Living Income Movement
Ellie Hudson, Christina Archer, Stephanie Daniels, Michelle Murray, and Jeremy Dufour discuss the living income movement.
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 →