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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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....
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...
Angela BarreroMap It Forward Hosting ‘Introduction to Regenerative Farming’ Workshop
Coffee events, podcasting and consulting agency Map It Forward is launching a live online workshop called “Introduction to Regenerative Coffee Farming.” The event series is scheduled to span three days,...
ArmeniaThree Questions with Lina Granados of Racafé in Bogotá
When Lina Granados sat down to talk with DCN, she had recently returned home to Armenia, Colombia, from Trieste, Italy, where she was completing the residential requirement for her master’s...
Al LiuLet’s Talk Coffee is Back, Heading to Peru in 2025
Seattle-based green coffee trading company Sustainable Harvest is reprising its long-running Let’s Talk Coffee event, with plans for Peru in September of 2025. Held in coffee-producing countries, and convening a...
Alan LaiProfilePrint Signs AI Analysis Deal with Major Brazilian Coffee Exporters
Singapore-based coffee analysis provider ProfilePrint says it has signed agreements with two of the largest coffee exporters in Brazil, Cooxupé and Minasul. The group also rolled out its newest green...