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From www.farmerconnect.com Adding to the growing list of blockchain-based platforms focused on the coffee sector is Farmer Connect, a Swiss-born platform with initial participation from multiple multinational coffee trading organizations. Founded by Dave Behrends, the… Source link
Sustainable, shade-grown coffee in Ai Ni Coffee Farm, Yunnan, China (Image: Karoline Kan/China Dialogue) This is the second of Karoline Kan’s two-part series on coffee growing in the Mekong region. Part one is available here. In a street renovated for Buon Ma… Source link
A scene from Santa Elena, Honduras. Courtesy photo. If farmers can’t — at minimum — break even with their costs of production, they will very likely abandon the crop. There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence these days to suggest that many are even choosing to Source link
Farmer Y Bel Eban in his coffee farm, Krong village, Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam (Image: Karoline Kan/chinadialogue) Drought aggravated by climate change is hurting coffee growers in the Mekong region, and intensive farming techniques are part of the problem. In villages… Source link
Daily Coffee News photo by Nick Brown The highly anticipated report on the sustainability of the coffee sector from famed Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs finally dropped on Oct. 1, providing a sprawling and thoughtful view of the past, present and potential… Source link
The head of global agri-business giant Olam International‘s coffee division, Vivek Verma, today spoke loudly in support of creating a global price stabilization fund for coffee. The timing of Verma’s comments — issued by London- and Singapore-based Olam — is… Source link
Ugandan coffee farmer Luyinda Edward, who has been participating in the NKG Bloom pilot program in Uganda. Images courtesy of NKG. Germany’s Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG), which owns 49 coffee-related companies in 27 countries, has launched a long-term, bank-backed… Source link
(Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the January/February 2016 issue of Roast Magazine. Links have been added for context.) The story of specialty coffee in Nariño, Colombia, is a story of separation. It’s a story that began in 1945, when Enrique… Source link
In Part 1 of this story, we outlined the ways in which coffee is typically procured, while contrasting that with the way it is marketed by coffee brands. In this Part 2, we’ll explore in much more detail how co-branding that takes into account the value and interests… Source link
In celebration of International Coffee Day, Bay Area CoRoasters, is hosting a fundraising party to support women coffee producers in Honduras with microcredit loans. The event will be held at CoRo on Tuesday, Oct. 1, from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m., and will include music,… Source link