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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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Confronting Tomorrow's Risks Today | Alexandra Tuinstra
Confronting Tomorrow's Risks Today: Key Strategies for Reimagining Resilience in the Coffee Value Chain

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.

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.

Smallholder Financial Risk Management: Approaches & Partnerships| Panel
Smallholder coffee producers face formidable and unpredictable financial risks, particularly related to market prices.

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.

An Introduction to the Korean Coffee Market
The growth of Korea’s specialty coffee market over the past decade has been a subject of much excitement – the country’s consumption has grown quickly in both volume and per capita terms, which leads many observers to wonder whether this rapid development would be possible in other markets.

An Introduction to the UK Coffee Market
Specialty coffee consumption in the UK has been on the rise in recent years, and despite steady growth in the number of total cafés – including both chains and independent shops – demand for lower-grade instant coffee has been difficult to unseat.

An Introduction to the US Coffee Market
The landscape of specialty coffee consumption in the United States is a patchwork of many regional and cultural customs.

An Introduction to the German Coffee Market
Europe's largest-volume importer of green coffee — because it re-exports a substantial portion of that volume as roasted coffee, anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of European specialty coffee markets should examine the country’s purchasing tendencies.

Bruno Giestas | Instant Coffee: Domestic & Export Market Opportunities
The presentation will address how ABICS, the Brazilian Soluble Coffee Association, has been branding its products to appeal both to the different consumer segments, from quality to price sensitive, from specialty to conventional, and to the supply chain that provides the products to them.

Tools: The Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide
There are big questions facing specialty coffee sellers and buyers.

Tools: International Trade Center Green Coffee Exporter's Guide
ITC Green Coffee Exporter's Guide is the world's most extensive, hands-on and neutral source of information on the international coffee trade.

Tools: Beyco Worldwide Trading Platform
Beyco is a platform that uses blockchain technology to facilitate the buying and selling of coffee, access to finance, and data management.

Tools: SCA Coffee Directory
Looking to expand your coffee network? Check out this video to learn more about the Specialty Coffee Association's Coffee Directory, a platform designed to help companies reach the SCA’s vast global network of professionals.

A Guide to Sourcing and Selling Green Coffee Directly
Access to information and technology means that roasters and producers are more prepared than ever to take control of their supply chains.
Sponsored content from Algrano.
Producers: learn about buyers’ needs and how to make offers they can’t resist. Roasters: find out how to communicate and plan, build direct relationships, and access the best lots that never make it to the offer lists.

Coffee Fermentation: Current Approaches
Mario R. Fernández-Alduenda, PhD, hosts a discussion leading experts in the field.

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?

Race, Power, Privilege | Re:co 2020
A concise introduction to race, power, and privilege in the hope we open up, admit responsibility where we need to, and collectively find solutions.

Listen, Learn, Lead | Re:co 2020
Understanding the past is a step towards actionable change when it comes to any systemic problem—climate change, gender inequality, racial inequity—but it’s not enough.

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 →