Production & Trade
Fewer than 3% of El Salvador’s coffee farmers produce Pacamara, a home-grown hybrid variety.
High arabica prices & soaring energy costs are testing roasters' abilities to pay farmers the premiums they have promised.
In El Salvador, where coffee farms are generally smallholder and family-run, younger generations grow up knowing that one day they will take the reins from their parents.
Consolidation has become a defining characteristic of the coffee industry – but is working for coffee farms?
Cup of Excellence (CoE) was launched in Brazil in 1999 as a platform for coffee producers – but private auctions have begun to eclipse its popularity.
A Chinese company recently paid more than $400/lb for an Ethiopian Sidama coffee. Where will it end?
The discrepancy is largely due to scarcity and marketing – although other factors are also at play.
Young farmers returning from jobs in the city are disillusioned with power structures. A few have taken matters into their own hands.
The volume of coffee consumed in China has jumped more than 44% in the last five years – but not all of it is what it claims to be.
As of September 2021, more than 53% of Kenyans owned a smartphone – and coffee farmers are harnessing them to become more efficient than ever.
9 out of 10 coffee pickers in Colombia are Venezuelan, many of whom have crossed the border in recent years to escape domestic political and economic turmoil.
Costa Rican coffee farmers pioneered honey processing; then other origins soon followed.
Many of the world’s coffee origins import coffee to meet domestic demand – but a secret culture of smuggling has existed for decades.
When they arrive, the auditors not only ask probing questions, but feed the information back to the ones who have paid for the audit.
While 43% of US coffee consumers report drinking specialty coffee, it still remains a relatively small market compared to commodity coffees.
Sixty years of armed conflict uprooted many of Antioquia’s rural coffee farmers – now a new urban coffee-producing sector has emerged.
For many of the world’s producers, knowledge of what happens to their coffee ends long before it finds its way into a consumer’s cup.
High coffee prices fuel a thriving local economy – but market volatility can have disastrous consequences.
Gender inequality is rife on coffee farms. But it can learn from the shea butter industry.
Exploring why specialty coffee's marketing efforts need to move beyond the narrative of impoverished farmers.
