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Vietnam Coffee Report: Production Rising for Third Straight Year

Vietnam’s green coffee production is forecast to rise 2.5% to 32.5 million 60-kilogram bags of green bean equivalent in market year 2026/27, as high prices from 2024 and 2025 encouraged...

2026.06.24

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Chinese Study Finds Native Fungus May Lift Conventional Coffee Into Specialty Range

Researchers in China say they have identified a naturally occurring fungus in coffee cherries that, when used as a fermentation agent under controlled conditions, can raise certain conventional coffees into...

2026.06.22

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Fairtrade Launches Free EUDR Geolocation Tool for Coffee Cooperatives

Fairtrade International is launching a new digital platform called Plot Insights to help coffee and cocoa cooperatives manage and verify geolocation data ahead of the looming EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)...

2026.06.17

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Indonesia Coffee Report: Production Predicted to Drop 8% in 2026/27

Indonesia’s green coffee production is forecast to fall 8% to 11.38 million 60-kilogram bags in market year 2026/27, with excessive rainfall hurting flowering and fruit development in key robusta areas...

2026.05.27

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Researchers Propose ‘Libex’ Hybrid as Climate Change Accelerates

Researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, have proposed the formal name Coffea × libex for hybrids of the liberica and excelsa coffee species, arguing that the cross could provide...

2026.05.21

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India Coffee Report: Soluble Coffee Drives Exports but Arabica Declining

India’s green coffee production is forecast to fall 4.5% to 6.14 million 60-kilogram bags in market year 2026/27, with arabica yields hurt by excessive early-year rain followed by a prolonged...

2026.05.20

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Study Identifies Chemical Differences in Civet Poop Coffee

Civet coffee (a.k.a. kopi luwak) remains one of the coffee world’s most divisive products, invoking sensitive issues such as value chain dynamics, high-end product differentiation, fraud and animal cruelty....

2026.04.15

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Coffee Crops Are Dying from a Fungus with Species-Jumping Genes

For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve never heard of. This fungal disease has repeatedly reshaped the global coffee...

2026.04.14

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Major Ag Lender Warns of Arabica Land Losses from Climate Change

One of the world’s largest agricultural lenders issued a stark warning to the coffee industry last week, saying broad areas now used for arabica production could become climatically unsuitable...

2026.04.02

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Major Traders Agree on Two ‘Principles of Procurement’ to Improve Coffee Sector Sustainability

A group of 14 major coffee traders and roasters has agreed on two shared green coffee buying principles intended to improve the long-term economic viability of coffee farmers. Three...

2026.04.01

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