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Mexico Coffee Report: Production and Specialty Consumption Are Up

A prominent global producer of organic and shade-grown arabica coffee, Mexico is expected to produce approximately 3.89 million 60-kilogram bags of coffee in 2024/25. Representing a slight increase over the...

2024.05.23

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Costa Rica Coffee Report: Production Near Record Lows

Coffee production in Costa Rica in market year 2024/25 is expected to hover around near-record-low levels as the country’s approximately 27,000 coffee growers continue to face labor and weather-related challenges....

2024.05.22

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El Salvador Coffee Report: Migration and Farm Abandonment On the Rise

Coffee production in El Salvador is estimated to reach approximately 555,000 60-kilo bags in market year 2023/24, a decline of more than 100,000 bags from the previous estimates. The country’s...

2024.05.21

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Guatemala Coffee Report: New Map for World’s Fourth Largest Arabica Producer

The Guatemalan national coffee association Anacafé led a comprehensive set of geographic surveys to redraw the map of the country’s coffee lands map last year. The effort has resulted in...

2024.05.15

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This World Bee Day, a Touch of Honey Could Help Coffee Producers

If you like coffee, you’d better dang well like bees, too. Study after study after study has highlighted the symbiotic relationships between bees and coffee ecosystems, particularly as they translate...

2024.05.14

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Green Coffee Trader Sucafina Launches Sucafina Guatemala

Multinational green coffee trading company Sucafina has launched a Guatemalan subsidiary called Guatemala Sucafina. Longtime coffee sourcing and export professional Carlos Ordoñez, a past advisor to the Guatemalan national coffee...

2024.04.11

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Five Must-Visit New Coffee Shops in Mexico City

The Mexico City coffee scene is booming, and few people have captured the sounds and sights as thoroughly as Fernanda Pérez Rosell, creator of the Here for the Coffee MX...

2024.03.26

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Specialty Roaster Paso Paso Launches in Germany with Producer Ownership

A new German coffee roasting company called Paso Paso presents a novel business model through which coffee producers have ownership and leadership stakes. Under the full name, “Paso Paso –...

2024.03.25

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First ‘Golden Attribute Competition’ Celebrates Flavors of Nicaraguan Coffees

Two Nicaragua-focused green coffee companies recently hosted the Golden Attribute Competition, a coffee quality competition with a novel approach to quality evaluation. Rather than employing traditional evaluation standards and protocols,...

2024.03.20

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Starbucks Names 10 New ‘Origin Grants’ Totaling Nearly $4 Million

The Starbucks Foundation, a nonprofit affiliated with global coffee giant Starbucks, has named the recipients of 10 grants worth nearly US$4 million. Each of the new grants support the Foundation’s...

2024.03.06

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