Farmer Issues

Can Regenerative Coffee Farming Deliver Living Incomes? It Depends, Analysis Shows

Two of coffee’s biggest sustainability concepts — regenerative agriculture and living income for farmers — have been gaining traction in parallel in recent years. A new paper from the nonprofits...

2026.07.24

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EUDR Provides Massive Challenge to the Vital Honduras Coffee Sector

Coffee is one of Honduras’s most important exports; half of it goes to the European Union, where stricter supply chain rules aimed at halting deforestation will come into place in...

2026.07.23

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Beyond Traceability: Why Producers Need Institutional Capacity for EUDR Compliance

When the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) comes fully into force, coffee exporters will no longer compete solely on quality or price. Increasingly, they will compete on their ability to...

2026.07.21

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Beyond Traceability: Why Producers Need Institutional Capacity for EUDR Compliance

When the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) comes fully into force, coffee exporters will no longer compete solely on quality or price. Increasingly, they will compete on their ability to...

2026.07.21

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Dynamic Coffee Steadies Focus on Producers at New Pittsburgh Shop

Pittsburgh-based Dynamic Coffee Roasters is in continuous action with the opening of its second cafe, La Galeria, designed to put coffee producers front and center. Large framed photos of the...

2026.07.20

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European Commission Adds Soluble Coffee to EUDR Product List

Soluble coffee is set to be added to the European Union’s landmark deforestation-free supply chains law, known as EUDR, under an act adopted by the European Commission this week. The...

2026.07.17

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Review: Coffee Sustainability Research is Growing but Fragmented

A recent review of more than two decades of coffee sustainability research found that while the field has grown considerably in the 21st century, it remains fragmented. Published in Sustainable...

2026.07.15

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Palm Oil, Cocoa, Coffee… Who’s Going to Tend to Tomorrow’s Large Tropical Plantations?

Palm oil plantations, for one, are increasingly struggling with the sector’s declining attractiveness, which has hardly changed since the colonial era. Behind basic foodstuffs like palm oil, cocoa, coffee and bananas...

2026.07.13

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Palm Oil, Cocoa, Coffee… Who’s Going to Tend to Tomorrow’s Large Tropical Plantations?

Palm oil plantations, for one, are increasingly struggling with the sector’s declining attractiveness, which has hardly changed since the colonial era. Behind basic foodstuffs like palm oil, cocoa, coffee and bananas...

2026.07.13

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Palm Oil, Cocoa, Coffee… Who’s Going to Tend to Tomorrow’s Large Tropical Plantations?

Palm oil plantations, for one, are increasingly struggling with the sector’s declining attractiveness, which has hardly changed since the colonial era. Behind basic foodstuffs like palm oil, cocoa, coffee and bananas...

2026.07.13

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