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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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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.

Coffee’s Retail Value in Europe (2018)
How much money did coffee sold at cafés and coffee-focused shops make across Europe in 2018?

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.

A Business Case to Increase Domestic Consumption in Specialty Coffee Producing Countries
For producers to reduce risk, additional opportunities to create and capture more value are key—domestic consumption could allow producers to enable to create (more) value and allow them to obtain a better, higher share of the consumer price.

Protecting Terroir | 25, Issue 3
Geographical indications can protect producers in a region and guarantee the quality of the product; what are the opportunities and challenges of seeking these protections?

Addressing the Price Crisis
The recommendations found in the Price Crisis Response Initiative’s Summary of Work were selected for their strong potential to foment long-term change in the coffee sector.

Cafés and Coffee Shops in Europe (2018)
How many cafés and coffee shops were there in Europe as of 2018?

Is Arabica Washed Out? | 25, Issue 2
While demand for washed arabica is soaring, total output has remained stagnant for two decades and is rapidly losing market share at origin.

How to Use the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel
Based on the World Coffee Research Sensory Lexicon, the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel provides a visual representation of a standard set of attributes designed to allow trained sensory panels to evaluate coffees for scientific research.

Growing Specialty Coffee in Times of Conflict: Case Studies in East Africa | 25, Issue 8
Dr. Joseph King explores the role of specialty coffee across two case studies of conflict and development efforts in Rwanda and Eastern Congo.

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.

Gender Equity and Coffee: Minimizing the Gender Gap in Agriculture
Research shows that overall, women earn less income, own less land, control fewer assets, and have less access to credit and market information, greater difficulty obtaining agricultural inputs, and fewer training and leadership opportunities.

Food Security and Coffee: Ending Seasonal Hunger
While hunger and food insecurity are complicated issues, there are immediate opportunities for all stakeholders in the specialty coffee industry to get involved and take action to help end hunger in the coffeelands.

Farmworkers and Coffee: The Case for Inclusion
Deeper engagement with farmworkers and with farm labor issues can help specialty coffee mitigate latent supply-chain risks, stay apace with changes on the regulatory landscape, seize opportunities for value creation and mutual gain, and expand specialty coffee’s promise to include these people who are critical to the future of our industry.

Farm Profitability Q&A | Janina Grabs
Janina Grabs, a postdoctoral researcher of the political economy of sustainable commodity production, answers audience questions generated from a webinar series on farm profitability and prosperity.

Farm Profitability Q&A | Ed Canty
Ed Canty, General Manager of Cooperative Coffees, answers audience questions generated from a webinar series on farm profitability and prosperity.

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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 →