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Iván Duque speaking at Agroexpo last week in Colombia. Photo via the office of the President of the Republic of Colombia. Colombian President Iván Duque signed into law a new fund late last week designed to support the country’s smallholder farmers in times of… Source link
Coffee in parchment. Daily Coffee News photo. When I started a small roasting company six years ago in Salt Lake City, Utah, I was surprised by how often I had to field these questions: “Is this coffee Fair Trade?” they’d ask. “Is it organic?” It annoyed me a… Source link
In coffee projects around the world, best practices and increasing yields are often the lynchpin in the strategy to improve smallholders’ livelihoods. By definition, a smallholder has a small tract of land, so the logic goes that to compete they need to maximize their… Source link
I don’t want to sound heartless, but we need to stop subsidizing coffee production. As coffee prices are sitting at historic lows and destroying people’s lives, it is shocking to see the amount of discussion suggesting placing artificial price floors. I understand… Source link
Daily Coffee News photo by Nick Brown. A growing number of progressive coffee companies from the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia have banded together in support of a radical new strategy to promote coffee purchasing transparency reporting. Seventeen companies… Source link
Cocoa beans drying. In a negotiation that has been closely tracked in the coffee world, top officials in Ghana and the Ivory Coast failed to come to an agreement with many of the world’s top cocoa traders on how to institute a price floor. Instead, the countries have… Source link
cocoa farm Representatives from throughout the global cocoa industry and the world’s two largest cocoa-producing countries are scheduled to meet tomorrow to negotiate a new price floor scheme designed to alleviate extreme poverty among cocoa farmers. It is a meeting… Source link
An SL28 plant in Nicaragua. File photo by Bram de Hoog, courtesy of WCR. Back in May, The Crown and Equator Coffees co-hosted Greg Meenahan of World Coffee Research for a pair of speaking engagements devoted to sustainability and science. Lively discourse and shared… Source link
This coffee plant is the cultivar ‘Catigua’ in its high production year. Catigua is one of the most commercially grown cultivars in Brazil. Photo by César Elias Botelho. Used with permission. The “biennial effect” in coffee — the idea that yields from coffee… Source link
World Coffee Producers Forum photo. Coffee leaders from Brazil and Colombia, the world’s two largest producers of arabica coffee, met in advance of next month’s World Coffee Producers Forum in Brazil to discuss solutions to the ongoing price crisis. Held at the… Source link