2023 Year In ReviewThe Biggest Green Coffee Stories of 2023
Continuing our 2023 Year in Review, we now turn to the big wide world of green coffee. One of the coffee industry’s biggest stories of the year was the decision...
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2023 Year In Review
cellular agricultureFinnish Researchers Pushing for ‘Cellular Agriculture’ in Coffee
Scientists in Finland have shed new light on the process of making, roasting and analyzing lab-grown cellular coffee. Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland — a state-owned...
Business OperationsReport: China Overtakes United States as Largest Coffee Shop Market
China has overtaken the United States as the country with the highest number of coffee shops in the world, according to the latest annual report on the East Asian coffee...
bankruptcyMercon Coffee Group Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Multinational green coffee trading company Mercon Coffee Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States on Wednesday. The move was precipitated days earlier by the unexpected suspension of...
AgriFuturesAustralian Researchers Develop a ‘Coffee Character Wheel’
New research funded by an Australian government agricultural agency has produced the “Coffee Character Wheel,” a cupping tool designed to more thoroughly describe or identify coffee with the concept of...
AfricaMajor ICO Green Coffee Report Notes ‘Growing Americas’ and ‘Shrinking Rest of the World’
The International Coffee Organization (ICO) has released its second Coffee Report and Outlook, including a broad overview of the global coffee sector in terms of production and consumption, economic analysis...
Farmer IssuesICO and SCA Sign MoU in Support of Global Coffee Industry
The top brass of the International Coffee Organization and the Specialty Coffee Association convened on Dec. 1 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining the organizations’ shared commitments to...
auctionsCup of Excellence Launching ‘Origin Immersion’ Program in El Salvador
The nonprofit Cup of Excellence (COE) is launching a multi-day education program designed for international coffee professionals to be immersed in the coffees and cultures of specific coffee-producing countries. In...
AfricaNKG Enlists Satelligence for Deforestation Monitoring
As the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) compliance deadline draws nearer, multinational green coffee trading company Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) is partnering with the Dutch deforestation monitoring firm Satelligence. Satelligence’s satellite-b...
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...