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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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Inside the 2026 Coffee Barometer, Part 2: What Companies Are Not Saying

The coffee industry is awash in sustainability claims. What’s missing, the 2026 Coffee Barometer finds, is proof that any of it is changing the commercial terms that dictate value in...

2026.07.14

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Inside the 2026 Coffee Barometer, Part 2: What Companies Are Not Saying

The coffee industry is awash in sustainability claims. What’s missing, the 2026 Coffee Barometer finds, is proof that any of it is changing the commercial terms that dictate value in...

2026.07.14

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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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As Brazil’s Coffee Climate Shifts, Small Farmers Seek New Ways to Survive

(Note: This article was originally published on Dialogue Earth under the Creative Commons BY NC ND license. Find the original version here.) Edson Paes, 53, has single-handedly cultivated 12,000 organic Arabica coffee plants...

2026.07.08

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Inside the 2026 Coffee Barometer, Part 1: Prices Swing, Structures Don’t

Record-high commodity coffee prices have not rescued the coffee industry from its sustainability shortcomings, according to the newly released 2026 Coffee Barometer. By contrast, they may have exposed how little...

2026.07.03

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Inside the 2026 Coffee Barometer, Part 1: Prices Swing, Structures Don’t

Record-high commodity coffee prices have not rescued the coffee industry from its sustainability shortcomings, according to the newly released 2026 Coffee Barometer. By contrast, they may have exposed how little...

2026.07.03

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