Sustainability

European Commission Adds Soluble Coffee to EUDR Product List

Soluble coffee is set to be added to the European Union’s landmark deforestation-free supply chains law, known as EUDR, under an act adopted by the European Commission this week. The...

2026.07.17

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Review: Coffee Sustainability Research is Growing but Fragmented

A recent review of more than two decades of coffee sustainability research found that while the field has grown considerably in the 21st century, it remains fragmented. Published in Sustainable...

2026.07.15

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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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Report Says Vietnam’s Robusta Boom Faces a Reckoning

The rise of Vietnam as a coffee-producing powerhouse has been one of the most consequential shifts in the global coffee trade over the past 40 years. What began as a...

2026.07.02

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Women-Powered Coffee Coalition Launches with Focus on Chiapas, Mexico

The nonprofit Bean Voyage is leading a new five-partner initiative in Chiapas, Mexico, designed to tackle one of specialty coffee’s stubborn stalling points: high-quality coffee that does not reliably translate...

2026.06.26

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