AfricaColumn: The Shifting Seasons of Coffee Shipments
Seasonality The idea that a particular crop — in our case, coffee — is available and fresh for a particular portion of the year is long-ingrained in the specialty food...
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cellular agricultureA Cell-Cultured Coffee Movement is Rapidly Advancing
Traditional coffee, or farm-grown coffee, is struggling to keep pace with the demands of modern consumption. With global demand expected to continue rising through 2050 and beyond, the strain on...
BrazilInside Brazil and Colombia Semi-Annual Coffee Market Reports
The USDA Foreign Agriculture Service last week released semi-annual market reports on two of the world’s largest coffee-producing markets, Brazil and Colombia. The reports come against the backdrop of a...
ApexBrasilLuckin Signs Estimated $2.5 Billion Green Coffee Supply MoU with Brazil
In an unprecedented buying spree, Chinese coffee giant Luckin Coffee is committing to purchasing 240,000 tons of green coffee from Brazil between 2025 and 2029. Negotiated by the Brazilian Trade...
CajamarcaPeru Coffee Study Underscores Environmental Benefits of Organic Production
A study from Peru shines new light on the environmental impact of green coffee production, finding synthetic fertilizers and untreated coffee pulp to be the largest contributors to carbon emissions....
Annette PenselGCP: 73% of Coffee from Nine Major Buyers Meets Sustainability Baseline
Approximately 73% of the green coffee purchased by nine of the world’s largest buyers in 2023 met a recognized baseline sustainability standard, according to the latest annual report from the...
AfricaWith USAID Support, JNP Coffee Establishing Burundi Coffee Academy and Dry Mill
Green coffee trading company JNP Coffee is leading the creation of a coffee academy and separate dry mill in Burundi. The academy is being designed to train to women and...
climate changeEU’s Largest Political Party Seeks to Soften EUDR Deforestation Law
The largest political party in the European Union, the European People’s Party (EPP), is behind a proposal to further delay the implementation of landmark European deforestation-free legislation (EUDR) affecting coffee...
BrazilColumn: Understanding Brazil’s Dual Influence on the Global Coffee Market
[Publisher’s note: This is Part 1 of a short series of stories by guest author Jonas Ferraresso exploring some of the intricacies of the Brazilian coffee market and Brazil’s outsize...
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...