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...
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...
certificationsFair Trade USA Names Private Label Expert Clay Dockery Head of Coffee
Sustainability certification group Fair Trade USA recently named private label industry veteran Clay Dockery as head of coffee. The appointment comes amidst a transitional period for the Oakland-based nonprofit, whose...
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...
Coffee Economics with KarlCoffee Ecomics with Karl: Where Does the C Price Come From? + Differentials
When we last caught up with Cheap Coffee author Karl Wienhold, he was halfway through a new miniseries on coffee prices, exploring questions about how green coffee market prices are...