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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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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.
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.
All About Robusta
Si alguna vez te has preguntando que es el café ROBUSTA, este es el momento. Entrevistaremos a Sylvia Gutierrez, catadora e instructora certificada de robusta QR por el CQI. Ella nos platicará de la especie poco conocida para los consumidores pero muy solicitada por la industria.
Beneficios Y Oportunidades Para la Industria de Cafés Especiales en Colombia
Elena Lokteva del equipo de liderazgo de CRG conversa con Viviana Navarez del Parque tecnológico de Innovación de Café - Tecnicafe en Cauca, para conocer su modelo y propuesta de valor para el desarrollo de la industria de cafés especiales en Colombia.
Fabricantes de tostadores locales
Recomendaciones para iniciadores en el tueste, el mercado en Mexico y consejos.
Finding your way around in the Processing Revolution | Mario Fernández
Finding your way around in the Processing Revolution | Cómo orientarse dentro de la Revolución de los Procesos
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.
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.
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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 →