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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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The Living Income Movement
Ellie Hudson, Christina Archer, Stephanie Daniels, Michelle Murray, and Jeremy Dufour discuss the living income movement.
El consumo interno como alternativa a la exportación
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?
El mercado de cafés especiales y la crisis de precios
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?
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?
Understanding Shifting Coffee Identity Standards
Mario Fernandéz traces the debates around coffee’s identity, from the first to the third wave.
Understanding Coffee's Global Growth | 25, Issue 12
Coffee industry growth and trends are difficult to quantify on a global scale, but if you start to look at different geographical regions and analyze what factors are leading growth, similarities between markets begin to surface.
Together Is Better: Providing a More Equitable Return to Farming Communities
Miguel Zamora asks: How can the coffee industry provide a more equitable return?
The Taste of Climate Change: Sustainability Lessons from Tea Farmers | 25, Issue 4
The changes Dr. Selena Ahmed measured in the amounts of tea secondary metabolites correspond to the sensory perceptions of farmer, consumer, and standardized taste panelists during our taste tests; the research also documents a decline of up to 50% in household income from tea sales.
The Importance of Collaboration: Building Trust with Local Government in Kenya
Laban Njuguna explores the role of government agencies and the importance of making information available to growers.
The Fermentation Effect | 25, Issue 10
For the past four years, Sophia Jiyuan Zhang and Florac de Bruyn have been working with coffee through a bilateral industry-academia research collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) and Nestlé Research (Vers-chez-les-Blanc, Switzerland), endeavoring to understand coffee post-harvest processing.
The Falacies of “Youth”: Finding New Solutions for Young People in Coffee Growing Communities | 25, Issue 11
Joanna Furgiuele asks: Do we really understand why young people are leaving coffee, or are we making damaging assumptions that keep us from finding real solutions?
The Economics of Coffee: Understanding Profitability at Farm Level | 25, Issue 3
As Avance–the Specialty Coffee Association’s inaugural sustainability conference and first ever event at origin–drew to a close in Guatemala City in October, delegates were asked to indicate what area they most prioritized among coffee’s value chain. More than 90% of participants stood next to the sign reading “farmer profitability.”
The Cost Connundrum | 25, Issue 11
Read about a research collaboration between the University of Muenster’s TRANSSUSTAIN research project, University of California Davis, and the International Coffee Organization that could help build an ongoing benchmark for farmer profitability.
The Coffee Price Crisis and Price Volatility: Can We Tame the C Market? | 25, Issue 7
How does the stock market affect coffee prices in the “real world”? How much of the current coffee price crisis is due to speculation? And are there ways to tame the price volatility in the C market?
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.
Taking Less, Not Giving More | 25, Issue 12
Achieving an equitable value distribution isn’t about making the pie bigger; it’s about dividing the pie better. It’s about who captures the value within the chain, regardless of where they are.
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.

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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 →