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How Europe’s Deforestation Law Could Change the Global Coffee Trade

If your morning can’t begin without coffee, you’re in good company. The world drinks about 2 billion cups of coffee a day. However, a European Union law might soon affect your...

2025.09.02

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Study Suggests Coffee Industry Has Been Incentivizing Carbon Storage All Wrong

For more than a century, the act of planting new trees has helped assuage the collective guilt of humans, the beneficiaries of economic progress at the expense of the...

2025.08.27

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Coffee Price Volatility Harms the Mental Health of Farmers

Coffee is a drink that punctuates many of our lives. Millions of us depend on this dark liquid to start the morning, or to break up the day. It has also become...

2025.01.21

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Vietnam, IDH and JDE Peet’s Partner in Landmark EUDR Database Project

A public-private partnership involving the world’s second-largest coffee producer, Vietnam, is resulting in a nationwide database system for forests and coffee-growing areas. Led by the partnership-focused sustainable agriculture nonprofit IDH,...

2024.12.20

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Asian Development Bank and Ecom Sign $100 Million ‘Social Loan’ Deal

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a US$100 million loan agreement with Swiss coffee trading giant Ecom designed to strengthen climate resilience within the conglomerate’s coffee supply chain in Asia....

2024.12.19

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Em Coffee House Brings Modern Vietnam to San Diego

The owners of the San Diego-based Ding Tea bubble tea chain expanded earlier this fall with a cafe concept that celebrates Vietnamese coffee called Em Coffee House. Opened Nov. 18,...

2024.12.18

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Column: The Shifting Seasons of Coffee Shipments

Seasonality The idea that a particular crop — in our case, coffee — is available and fresh for a particular portion of the year is long-ingrained in the specialty food...

2024.12.10

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Labor Violations Alleged in Starbucks and Nestlé Supply Chains in China

Independent field investigations in China’s Yunnan Province found labor violations at coffee farms that supply coffees purchased and certified as sustainable by coffee giants Starbucks and Nestlé, according to a...

2024.12.05

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Starbucks Expands Research-Focused Coffee Farm Operations

Starbucks today announced an expansion of its in-house coffee farming and sustainability research activities, including new coffee farms in Costa Rica and Guatemala, plus planned investments for farms in Africa...

2024.10.04

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ILO Leading $10.8 Million Child Labor in Coffee Project

The number of child laborers has been rising in recent years, reaching 160 million — or one in 10 children globally — as of the latest report from the United...

2024.07.09

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