AfricaThree Questions with Francis Kungu of Kenya-Focused Jamii Coffee
Francis Kungu can recall his younger days sitting with his friends at a pub across the street from a coffee farm in rural Kenya. “We used to swear that we’d...
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Carlos OrdoñezGreen 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...
AlmacaféColombia’s FNC Launches Direct Trade Export Platform Cafix
The Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC) last week announced the launch of Cafix, a trading and logistics program designed to streamline exports directly from producers to international buyers. The Cafix program...
BrazilBrazil’s Expocacer Cooperative Opens US Hub in Delaware
One of Brazil’s largest coffee cooperatives, Expocacer, recently launched operations in the United States, opening a logistics hub in Delaware. The Patrocínio, Minas Gerais-based group — which currently exports green...
AfricaThree Questions with Rwandan Coffee Expert Laetitia Mukandahiro
In a sunny yellow room with a large coffee taster’s flavor wheel on one wall and a branded jute bag on the opposite wall, Laetitia Mukandahiro and Uzziel Habimana of...
Alejandro CadenaTrader Caravela Coffee Implementing Self-Management Model Called One Caravela
Green coffee trading company Caravela Coffee has announced it is reshaping its management structure with the goals of improving collaboration, empowering individuals and better responding to the evolving challenges and...