AsiaCoffee 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...
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2024 Year In ReviewPrices, EUDR and Value Inequity Defined the Year in Green Coffee
Sustained relatively high prices and the looming enforcement of the European deforestation-free law known as EUDR captured headlines throughout the green coffee world this year. We say “relatively” high prices...
coffee pricesDutch Trader Sucden Coffee Surrenders $670K+ After ICE Allegations
Dutch green coffee trader Sucden Coffee agreed to a settlement with the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) following a notice that it “may have” violated a rule designed to prevent coffee market...
AfricaMajor FAO Report Reveals ‘Hidden Costs’ of Coffee Production
As coffee prices currently sit at historically high levels on the commodities markets, driven by supply concerns and growing demand, the economic benefits for green coffee producers might seem universally...
AntioquiaColumn: Prices and Weather in Colombia Create Tension Between Conventional and Specialty
The Colombian coffee industry is currently in the middle of its main annual harvest. As the third largest coffee producing nation in the world, achieving a successful harvest for producers...
Adam MaxwellVoyage Foods Launches Sales of ‘Bean-Free Coffee’ in B2B Channels
Bay Area startup Voyage Foods has launched sales of a chickpea and rice hull drink that it calls “bean-free coffee” to wholesale customers in foodservice and food manufacturing channels. In...
AsiaStudy: Price Volatility Affects Mental Health of Smallholder Coffee Farmers
A recent public health study found that income uncertainty, particularly in the context of volatile coffee prices, negatively impacts the mental health of smallholder coffee farmers. After studying small-scale coffee...
blended financeICO and UNIDO Outline an Unprecedented Global Coffee Fund
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the International Coffee Organization (ICO) today unveiled a major building block in a potentially transformational global fund to support the coffee sector....
coffee pricesColumn: More Needed in the ‘Last Mile’ of the Coffee Purchasing Chain
Today, money and goods are exchanged across great distances more efficiently than ever, but the final leg of the journey, the “last mile,” is often the most challenging. If...
coffee pricesColumn: Why Are ‘Sustainable’ Businesses Going Out of Business and How Can We Change That?
Why are “sustainable” businesses going out of business and how can we change that? A good place to start is with greater transparency. We also need honest recognition that multiple...