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Column: 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...

2024.11.08

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Fair 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...

2024.10.15

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Voyage 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...

2024.07.17

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Study: 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...

2024.07.08

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ICO 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....

2024.06.14

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Column: 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...

2024.05.30

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Column: 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...

2024.04.03

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Coffee 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...

2024.03.25

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SCA Mines the Coffee Industry’s Mindset On Value Distribution

The Specialty Coffee Association has released the results of a pioneering survey on the topic of equitable value distribution in the coffee industry. The findings will support a broader effort...

2024.03.21

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Coffee Economics with Karl Gets Into Coffee Prices

It’s been nearly two years since we last featured “Coffee Economics with Karl” on these digital pages, and a lot has gone down since then — both with prices and...

2024.02.09

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