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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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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.
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.
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.
Beyond the Stereotype | 25, Issue 11
There’s more to Brazil than high volumes and cutting-edge crop technology—Brazil’s coffee crop has undergone enormous changes and many challenges over the past century-and-a-half.
Beyond Coffea Arabica: Opportunities for Specialty Coffee with Coffea Canephora
C. canephora deserves a second look, and global warming might bring the opportunity for it to step into the specialty coffee arena.
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.
An Emerging Market: The Rise of China’s Coffee Drinking Culture | 25, Issue 13
Nicole Lin and Charley Biddle share their view of the Chinese coffee market, tracing its rise through to the unexpected impacts of 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic.
US Consumer Snapshot
An overview of coffee consumer trends and purchase behavior in the US.
UK Consumer Snapshot
An overview of coffee consumer trends and purchase behavior in the UK.
Canadian Consumer Snapshot
An overview of coffee consumer trends and purchase behavior in Canada.
Australian Consumer Snapshot
An overview of coffee consumer trends and purchase behavior in Australia.
Roaster/Retailer Benchmarks
Explore the SCA’s first-ever quantitative study on specialty coffee consumers in the US that tracks the habits, preferences, and characteristics of two key segments.
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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 →