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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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Cafés and Coffee Shops in Europe (2018)
How many cafés and coffee shops were there in Europe as of 2018?

Is Arabica Washed Out? | 25, Issue 2
While demand for washed arabica is soaring, total output has remained stagnant for two decades and is rapidly losing market share at origin.

How to Use the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel
Based on the World Coffee Research Sensory Lexicon, the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel provides a visual representation of a standard set of attributes designed to allow trained sensory panels to evaluate coffees for scientific research.

Growing Specialty Coffee in Times of Conflict: Case Studies in East Africa | 25, Issue 8
Dr. Joseph King explores the role of specialty coffee across two case studies of conflict and development efforts in Rwanda and Eastern Congo.

Financing Resilience
Greg Low, asks: What is insurance’s role in building resilient business models? New developments in insurance solutions can transform how risk is managed, understood, and priced. From crop insurance to weather insurance, new financing models are unlocking possibilities for agricultural supply chains.

Gender Equity and Coffee: Minimizing the Gender Gap in Agriculture
Research shows that overall, women earn less income, own less land, control fewer assets, and have less access to credit and market information, greater difficulty obtaining agricultural inputs, and fewer training and leadership opportunities.

Food Security and Coffee: Ending Seasonal Hunger
While hunger and food insecurity are complicated issues, there are immediate opportunities for all stakeholders in the specialty coffee industry to get involved and take action to help end hunger in the coffeelands.

Farmworkers and Coffee: The Case for Inclusion
Deeper engagement with farmworkers and with farm labor issues can help specialty coffee mitigate latent supply-chain risks, stay apace with changes on the regulatory landscape, seize opportunities for value creation and mutual gain, and expand specialty coffee’s promise to include these people who are critical to the future of our industry.

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.

Economics of the Coffee Supply Chain
This illustrative outlook reveals a broad representation of the specialty coffee value stream based on real data.

Drinking Local | 25, Issue 10
Vera Espindola Rafael conducted interviews with coffee producers, buyers, roasters, and café owners in cities across Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Rwanda to capture a snapshot of specialty consumption in countries traditionally seen as producers, not consumers, and understand what value, if any, producers were getting from selling domestically.

Difficult Conditions, Huge Potential: Processing Coffee in Eastern Uganda
Shakeel Padamsey, Dana Siedem, and Michael Buteera Mugisha explore the challenges and opportunities of coffee production in Uganda.

Creating Financial Stability in Coffee Farming | 25
Hortensia Solis interviews three young Latin American coffee professionals from three different countries to better understand their perspective on the future of coffee production, the industry’s most pressing challenges, and the steps they’re taking to resolve or otherwise navigate them.

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.

Spotlight on the Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide
Peter Roberts and Chad Trewick present and answer questions about the Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide, a project run by researchers at Emory University with an expanding group of data donors, that reports on the distributions of recent Free on Board prices for green specialty coffee.

The Coffee Farmer: Misconceptions & Diversity
What comes to mind when you hear the words “coffee farmer?” Lisanne Oonk and Ivania Calderón address common assumptions about coffee producers, showing how stereotypes hinder relationship development.

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.

Bouncing Back: Resiliency in Specialty Coffee | 25, Issue 10
If “sustainability” became the buzzword of specialty coffee towards the end of the twentieth century, then “resilience” is fast on its way towards earning the title in the twenty-first.

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 →