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The nonprofit Verité has published an open-source toolkit designed to help businesses and other stakeholders detect, prevent and address labor violations within the coffee sector. Designed for use by any number of actors within the seed-to-cup nexus and available in three languages, the 17-tool kit is part of a broader, 4-year, $2.2 million effort called

Abigail Joslyn of Honolulu Coffee demonstrates the Kalita Wave brew method to Kapi’olani Community College culinary students. All images courtesy of Savor Brands. A new privately backed community-building and education-focused group called the Pono Collective (Instagram) has launched in Hawaii. Created by the Honolulu-based coffee packaging and print firm Savor Brands, the collective is designed

As terms like container shortages, shipping delays or the vague “logistics issues” have become commonplace in reference to all kinds of consumer goods in the post-COVID era, a new webinar series from the firm Digital Coffee Future is set to explore some tech-forward, coffee-specific solutions. The three-part series, called “The Logic of Coffee Logistics,” begins

Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund image. The Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia plans to invest approximately $320 million USD in the development of the Saudi Arabian arabica coffee sector, with the goal of becoming an international player in coffee exports. The PIF — the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia estimated to hold

Addressing the issue of counterfeiting, the Hawaii Coffee Association (HCA) has signed a deal with the multinational agricultural traceability company Oritain to create a statewide “origin fingerprint.” The financial terms of the deal have not been announced, although it comes a week ahead of the annual HCA conference, of which Oritain is a primary sponsor, taking

A new study involving real-world experiments at 30 coffee farms has found that coffee fruit health and production is dramatically improved with the increased presence of both birds and bees. The research underscores the need to support agroforestry systems in coffee farming — as opposed to deforested monocrop systems — in order to support biodiversity,

Nick Brown | May 6, 2022 A police photo showing a shipment at the Nespresso Romont production facility in Brazil that contained approximately 1,100 pounds of 80% pure cocaine. Swiss police have discovered more than half a ton of cocaine with an estimated street value of more than $50 million USD at the Nespresso production

A BREEDCAFS project photo. The EU-funded four-year project concluded with a meeting in Dec. 2021. As the specter of climate change looms over the future of coffee production, a major agricultural agency believes F1 arabica hybrid cultivation in agroforestry systems may be the key to increased and resilient production, reduced pesticide use and improved coffee

Images from producers who participated in the inaugural Taiwan Private Collection Auction, courtesy of ACE. After an inaugural green coffee auction that fetched spectacularly high prices last year, the organizers of the Taiwan Private Collection Auction are reprising the auction program for three more years. Beginning this year, the auction series is being organized by

The nonprofit TechnoServe has published an unquestionably robust free guide to wet mill coffee processing, a.k.a. “washed” coffee processing. Published in March, the 70-page “Coffee Wet Mill Processing Guide” serves as an expansive overview of coffee processing in general, while drawing from TechnoServe’s years of experience working alongside coffee in parts of East Africa. The

Guatemala. (Left to right) Heifer Enterprise Facilitator Patricia Tax, Esdras and production specialist Edgar examine a small coffee plant. Photo: Phillip Davis/Heifer International As we wade deeper into the information age — in which knowledge is power and data its most sought-after currency — transparency has taken on new importance. Information is not neutral; it

A streetscape in Chengdu, China, which has experienced massive coffee consumption growth over the past decade. Chinese green coffee production is on the decline while domestic demand for unroasted and roasted coffee is expanding rapidly as more consumers embrace the beverage, according to a new report from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign

Fairtrade International Global CEO Sandra Uwera. Press photo. Fairtrade International has announced the appointment of Rwandan national Sandra Uwera to its top executive position, global CEO. Uwera succeeds Nyagoy Nyong’o, the former Fairtrade Africa executive director who held the global CEO position on an interim basis following the February 2021 departure of formal global CEO

Nick Brown | April 22, 2022 Starbucks is investing $4.2 million more in the Colombian coffee sector. Starbucks press release photo. Starbucks is supplying a $4.2 million grant that is expected to result in 22 million new arabica coffee trees plus early-growth fertilizer among thousands of farmers in Colombia. The investment builds upon a $3

The seeds of an ambitious coffee quality project in Rwanda have come to fruition with a tasting set and forthcoming microlot auction from the New Zealand-based social enterprise Raw Material. The company, which primarily deals in green coffee with 100% of the proceeds returning to the coffee producers, has released a Rwanda varieties tasting set.

Daily Coffee News photo by Nick Brown. Coffee production is currently under a serious threat that could drastically change the coffee we drink each day and potentially leave our cups dry.  Coffee trees cover an estimated 11 million hectares of land throughout the tropics. Farmers harvest ripe emerald coffee cherries by hand and meticulously process

Switzerland-based green coffee platform provider Algrano has launched its second free global coffee market report. The elaborately researched 54-page report, authored under contract by Nora Burkey of The Chain Collaborative and Elisa Criscione of Digital Coffee Future, promotes increased engagement in direct trade and long-term relationships among coffee roasters and coffee producers. It also calls

Roast Magazine Announces Recipient of Small Business Grant A $5,000 grant has been awarded to Catracha Coffee PORTLAND, Ore. (April 10, 2022)—Roast is pleased to announce that Catracha Coffee has been awarded its 2022 Small Business Grant for $5,000 after applying for the program earlier this year. The grant application was open to any roastery,

The Fairtrade living income reference price for Indonesia follows last year’s release of a price in Colombia. “Coffee Plants” by James Gagen is marked with CC BY-SA 2.0. Fairtrade International has released its second major “living income reference price” for coffee while finding that farmers in Indonesia’s Aceh region earned only 40% of that price in 2020. This is

Representatives from ACDI/VOCA, PhilCAFE, the Department of Trade and Industry of the Philippines, farmer cooperatives and other PCQC winners gathered last month. Courtesy photo. Twenty-two microlots of specialty arabica and fine robusta coffees have emerged as winners of the annual Philippine Coffee Quality Competition (PCQC). All the winning lots were celebrated at a March 18

Anacafé’s Diego del Aguila cupping coffees for the One of a Kind Guatemala green coffee program. All images courtesy of Anacafé. The nonprofit Alliance for Coffee Excellence and the National Coffee Association of Guatemala Anacafé are uniting for the second “One of a Kind Guatemala” green competition and auction. Anacafé launched the auction program and

Image courtesy of CQI. After discovering quality coffees and a healthy demand among international buyers, the green coffee competition of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic is returning for a second year — this time with an online auction. The nonprofit Coffee Quality Institute (CQI) announced yesterday that the auction will take place in late May

Daily Coffee News Staff | March 30, 2022 A screenshot of the Olam Specialty Coffee Europe website and e-commerce platform. After more than a decade of serving the specialty coffee industry in the United States, Olam Specialty Coffee is expanding its brand and e-commerce platform to Europe. With new sites catering to buyers in the

Satellite imagery is used to calculate biomass on coffee farms. Photo courtesy of Carble. A new joint project involving satellite imagery of coffee lands is designed to financially reward coffee farmers for maintaining agroforestry systems while reducing the carbon footprint of the coffee industry. The two Dutch companies combining for the partnership are the coffee-sector-focused

The International Coffee Organization is engaging with The Netherlands-based agency IDH in a partnership designed to help improve prosperity among the world’s coffee farmers.  Described by outgoing ICO Executive Director José Sette as “wide-ranging,” the strategic partnership will leverage the multi-stakeholder networks of both organizations, which include public agencies, major multinational private-sector coffee buyers and

Brazilian farmers must fertilize the coffee fields to maintain plant health. All images courtesy of story author Jonas Ferraresso. Before delving into a technical analysis on the current coffee sector conditions in Brazil, I must first express my support to all the millions of innocent people whose lives have been affected by Russia’s invasion of

Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE) is adding to its “Private Collection” auction (PCA) portfolio with the forthcoming Super Mujeres Nicaragua auction, which will showcase only high-quality coffees that were grown by women. The auction program is in partnership with the Nicaragua’s National Commission for the Transformation and Development of Coffee Farming (CONATRADEC).

Over the past four years, the commodity price for arabica coffee — a.k.a. the “C price” — can be characterized by extreme volatility. In 2018, the C price dipped below $1 USD per pound, and today it sits at approximately $2.29 per pound. Such volatility stands in notable contrast to trend consistency found in the latest

Heading into its flagship North American event next month in Boston, the Specialty Coffee Association has announced the winners of its annual Sustainability Awards: Caravela Coffee, Coffee Circle and David Browning. Latin America-focused coffee trading company Caravela Coffee has won in the sustainability award in the “business model” category; Germany-based Coffee Circle’s Ethiopia-focused Jimma Agricultural

Sustainable Harvest press photo. Portland, Oregon-based coffee trading company Sustainable Harvest has launched a producer-focused online education platform called EDU. Currently available in beta form to certain participants in Sustainable Harvest’s “Most Valuable Producer (MVP)” program, the EDU platform is designed to improve the livelihoods of coffee-farming families by offering free online education and tools