What Does Blockchain Really Offer Coffee Roasters?
Blockchain has been touted as the key to empowering coffee producers and improving supply chain sustainability in the face of crashing coffee prices – but...
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How to know when it’s time to upgrade to a new roaster
For most roasters, there often comes a time when scaling operations is beneficial – or maybe even necessary. This could be for an endless number of reasons, including taking on a new wholesale client, launching an online store, or just a continuous increase in customer orders. The decision to expand operations brings about many factors for roasters to consider, and one of the most important is investing in a new… read more
For most roasters, there often comes a time when scaling operations is beneficial – or maybe even necessary. This could be for an endless number of reasons, including taking on a new wholesale client, launching an online store, or just… read more
How Madagascan Deforestation Puts World Coffee At Risk
Madagascar has a breathtaking array of wildlife. Over 90% of the island’s reptiles, approximately 89% of its plants, and around 92% of its mammals exist...
Does Producing Coffee Mean Living in Poverty? Examining The Data
With coffee prices falling to a 12-year low earlier this year, the economic sustainability of coffee has been left in more doubt than ever. We...
How Can Blockchain Empower Coffee Producers?
Every time I open the tech section of my go-to news platform, blockchain is there. Banking, produce, charity, politics… it seems like there’s nothing this...
Sustainability in Coffee: What Are The Main Issues?
Sustainability has become a buzz word in recent years, but the long-term economic, environmental, and social health of the coffee industry are vital considerations. Reduced...
Can We Improve Efficiency & Quality in Coffee Picking?
Do you want to produce high-quality coffee that should result in higher prices? Or do you want to efficiently produce coffee, reducing investment and so...
Disease & Deforestation: The Cost of Coffee in Madagascar
In Madagascar, coffee is the fuel that powers everyone through their day – but it comes at a cost. This island off the Mozambique coast...
What Should We Have Learned From The 2001 Coffee Price Crisis?
When the international price for coffee (or C-Price) fell below US $1 per pound in August, many were alarmed. Even outside of the industry, the...
The Daily Life of Madagascar’s Coffee Vendors
In Madagascar, coffee is a national obsession and a big part of daily life. At its heart are the street vendors who dedicate their lives...
A Broken Coffee Market: Why Specialty Farmers Are Going Bankrupt
Murray Cooper was one of the most famous specialty coffee farmers in Ecuador. I’m using the past tense because he’s now bankrupt. Murray did specialty coffee...
When Producers Roast Their Own Coffee, Green Quality Improves
Endless mountain ranges, coffee trees drooping with ripe-red cherries, and golden coffee beans drying on raised beds: this is what we often think of when...
Examining coffee production costs across Latin America
A coffee at your local café might cost US $4.00, but this doesn’t tell you how much green coffee is required to buy and produce...
How Can Long-Term Relationships Increase Sustainability at Origin?
“We need to think that the coffee ecosystem is composed of 20 million farmers,” Michele Cannone tells me. As Head of Global Marketing Foodservice at...
Coffee Barometer 2018: It’s Time for Less Talk, More Action
As I read the last sentence of the 2018 Coffee Barometer report, it left me thinking of the Honduran phrase “tilin-tilin y nada de paletas.”...
Volcán De Fuego & How The Coffee Community Can Support Guatemala
75 Guatemalans have died. More are missing. And thousands have been displaced, forced to leave behind their homes and crops. We know Guatemala for its...
3 Things a Coffee Farmer Would Like You to Do
Coffee is not just coffee. Our favorite beverage can be our morning pick-me-up, a precious moment to ourselves after work, a long chat with an...