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As Brazil’s Coffee Climate Shifts, Small Farmers Seek New Ways to Survive

(Note: This article was originally published on Dialogue Earth under the Creative Commons BY NC ND license. Find the original version here.) Edson Paes, 53, has single-handedly cultivated 12,000 organic Arabica coffee plants...

2026.07.08

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Inside the 2026 Coffee Barometer, Part 1: Prices Swing, Structures Don’t

Record-high commodity coffee prices have not rescued the coffee industry from its sustainability shortcomings, according to the newly released 2026 Coffee Barometer. By contrast, they may have exposed how little...

2026.07.03

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Inside the 2026 Coffee Barometer, Part 1: Prices Swing, Structures Don’t

Record-high commodity coffee prices have not rescued the coffee industry from its sustainability shortcomings, according to the newly released 2026 Coffee Barometer. By contrast, they may have exposed how little...

2026.07.03

2026 Coffee BarometerAfricaAndrea OlivarAntonie FountainAshlee TuttlemanAsiaCentral AmericaCoffee Barometercoffee pricesConservation InternationalCorporateCSDDDEthos AgricultureEUDRFarmer IssuesfarmworkersFrederik de VriesGerman Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Developmentgreen coffeeHawaiiICO Coffee Public-Private Task ForceIndonesiaIndustryInternationalliving incomeMarket NewsMarketingmulti-stakeholder initiativesNiels HaakOriginpricesSjoerd Panhuysensmallholder farmersSolidaridadSouth AmericaSustainabilityUnited StatesVOCALコーヒー

Report Says Vietnam’s Robusta Boom Faces a Reckoning

The rise of Vietnam as a coffee-producing powerhouse has been one of the most consequential shifts in the global coffee trade over the past 40 years. What began as a...

2026.07.02

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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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