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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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Retos a la producción agrícola por el COVID-19
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 Challenges of Being a Biological Coffee Farmer
Hear from Tim Wendelboe on what he’s learned from starting his own coffee farm, Finca el Suelo.
Coffee and Value | Re:co
Coffee acts as a vessel for all kinds of values—economic, social, moral, and ideological. How does the coffee trade balance these different metrics of value? Hear from Ted Fischer.
Brewing & Roasting | Systems Map
Elvira Conty-Nieves, Cleia Junqueira, and Joan W. Kithika feature in the fourth of four webinars exploring the roles of actors outlined in the SCA’s Coffee Systems Map.
Importing | Systems Map
Cora Njuguna, Kat Nolte, Kavi Bailey, and Michael Timofeev feature in the third of four webinars exploring the roles of actors outlined in the SCA’s Coffee Systems Map.
Exporting | Systems Map
Daniel Velasquez, Drew Burnett, and Yuki Minami feature in the second of four webinars on the roles of actors outlined in the SCA’s Coffee Systems Map.
Farming & Producing | Systems Map
Daniel Cortés, Anggela Sara, and Nima Tenzing Sherpa feature in the first of four webinars on the roles of the actors outlined in the SCA’s Coffee Systems Map.
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.
Guilds and the Price Crisis: What’s Our Role?
As with any crisis, long-term solutions to coffee price volatility and farm profitability will require cooperation from actors across our industry. Hear from Yannis Apostolopoulos, Stuart Ritson, Sonja Björk Grant, and Hylan Joseph about what the coffee price crisis means to the members of their guilds.
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.
Estrategias para la Diversificación de los Ingresos en las Zonas Productoras de Café
Con los precios del café en el mercado de futuros (nuevamente) por debajo del costo de producción, en la mayoría de los países productores de café—situación que es poco probable que cambie en el futuro próximo—los productores necesitan encontrar otros medios de sustento. Una de las posibles soluciones es la diversificación de los ingresos.
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.
The Coffee Barometer
Published every four years, the Coffee Barometer highlights emerging trends and provides a critical look at progress made by the coffee sector on sustainability.
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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 →