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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 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.

A New Framework for Defining Specialty Coffee
Peter Giuliano introduces the Specialty Coffee Association's new way to define specialty coffee through the attributes conception.

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.

What is Quality? Implications for New Variety Development
Hanna Neuschwander of World Coffee Research shares an update on WCR’s 2015 F1 Hybrid candidates through the specific lens of quality.

Innovations with Liberica Coffee
A conversation between Emi-Beth Quantson and Sangai Brisbane of Brisco Natural Coffee.

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.

Sustainability Toolkit: Data
Take a look at the first results from The Sustainability Toolkit, and learning about the answers most commonly-submitted by roasters and other coffee professionals on their sustainability journey.

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.

Climate Change, Adaptation, and Coffee Quality
Dr. Selena Ahmed shares the findings of a recent meta-analysis, the first of its kind, exploring the impact of climate change on coffee quality.

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.

Sustainability Toolkit: Labor and Human Rights
Advancing decent work and raising the living standards of all workers across operations and supply chains require all companies to adopt sustainable, responsible and inclusive workplace practices, and for companies with supply chains to use their leverage with suppliers to contribute to the realization of decent work globally.

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.

Understanding the Value of Coffee's Transport
Erika Koss sheds light on the vital human labor that makes it possible for farmers to be paid and for baristas to serve coffee.

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.

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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 →