Dr. Sarada Krishnan at her coffee farm in Jamaica. Courtesy photo. Plant scientist and coffee sector leader Dr. Sarada Krishnan was recently named executive director of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance. Born in India to a family that owned a coffee plantation and other crop farms, Krishnan’s interest in plants and biology at an early
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Photo courtesy of Olam Food Ingredients. Long queues for takeaway coffee during lockdowns are one sure sign that demand still thrives. But for the majority of smallholder farmers who produce the word’s coffee beans, COVID-19 has exacerbated underlying vulnerabilities, potentially putting supply chains at risk. In the recent Olam annual farmer barometer, more than half
Daily Coffee News Staff | July 1, 2021 International green coffee supplier Mercon Coffee Group is launching an environmental sustainability assessment program with support from corporate sustainability experts Conservation International. The assessment will apply resources to review Mercon Group’s existing in-house sustainability program, called LIFT, while testing ways to integrate natural climate-related solutions into coffee
Steve Patton of Yuni Coffee Co. logging coffees. Photo courtesy of CQI. The first green coffee competition ever to take place in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic is underway, part of a broad multi-stakeholder effort to boost the country’s agricultural sector and forge international market connections. Currently, 120 kilograms of arabica and robusta samples that
At the Savor brands cupping lab on Oahu, judge Marc Marquez evaluates coffee during the 12th Statewide Hawaii Coffee Association Cupping Competition. Photo courtesy Savor Brands. Coffee producers from throughout the state of Hawaii found cause to celebrate last week with the presentation of awards from the Hawaii Coffee Association (HCA) annual cupping competition. While
El Salvador Cup of Excellence winners Giancarlo Rusconi (left) and Ever Leonel Díaz Pérez at the recent awards ceremony. All photo courtesy of Cup of Excellence. The nonprofit Cup and Excellence (COE) and the Salvadoran Coffee Council (CSC) have announced 24 winners of the 2021 El Salvador Cup of Excellence competition, including a longtime coffee
These coffee leaves are covered in coffee leaf rust, a fungal pathogen that leads to defoliation and reduced yields. Without proper management, coffee leaf rust can spread quickly and threaten coffee crops around the world, warns Purdue University mycologist Cathie Aime. (Photo courtesy of Cathie Aime) The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a “severe
The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) is launching the Green Coffee Summit, a free online event for green coffee market participants taking place Aug. 25-26. The Summit will be augmented by a green coffee digital resources library curated by the SCA. Conceptually, the Green Coffee Summit resembles the SCA’s Coffee Retail Summit, which concluded its second
2021 Guatemala Cup of Excellence trophies were recently presented by Anacafé at a presentation in Guatemala City. All images courtesy of Cup of Excellence. Four microlots scored above 90 points to top the list of 28 winners of the Guatemala 2021 Cup of Excellence competition. Coffee producers were recently honored at a live-streamed awards show
Coffee in parchment. Daily Coffee News file photo. The recent green coffee market volatility can create a daunting situation for actors throughout the coffee supply chain. On the surface, rising prices are a good sign for farmer incomes, but the reality is that a rapid increase and volatility may make the situation more difficult for
As climate change, monocropping and other human-led environmental degradations further strain the delicate ecosystems required for coffee production, researchers in Colombia have uncovered new evidence to support more trees and bees. An investigation led by the Colombian national coffee research agency Cenicafé and German multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer AG identified 88 species of native bees
The new Moon Mountain Coffee bar in Long Beach. All images courtesy of Moon Mountain coffee. After years of selling its own Costa Rica-grown, California-roasted beans online and at Southern California farmers markets, vertically integrated Moon Mountain Coffee has opened its first brick-and-mortar cafe in the Belmont Shore neighborhood of Long Beach. Awash in soothing
A worker harvesting coffee in Colombia. Photo courtesy of Those Coffee People. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the trajectory of Colombia’s internal coffee prices has defied expectations. The abrupt collapse in oil prices in March 2020 triggered a near 25% reduction in the value of the peso (COP) against the dollar. As coffee beans
Alyson Welch. Photo courtesy of Food 4 Farmers. The coffee community-focused nonprofit Food 4 Farmers has hired its first ever executive director, international development expert Alyson Welch. Welch joins the 10-year-old nonprofit after nearly three years at the Washington D.C.-area international development agency DAI, and more than six years at the internationally focused engineering services
Daily Coffee News Staff | June 17, 2021 The International Women’s Coffee Alliance (IWCA) has signed memoranda of understanding with the nonprofit Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE) and its sibling nonprofit organization Cup of Excellence (COE). Both MOUs among the largely producer-focused organizations are designed to help women achieve greater financial success and empowerment within
Costa Rican coffees in processing. All images courtesy of Sensible Development. Costa Rican green coffee company Exclusive Coffees and auction platform provider Sensible Development have teamed up for the inaugural Costa Rica Exclusive Coffees private auction, taking place online on Thursday, June 24. The companies say the auction was designed to bring some of the
Native shade trees among the coffee plants at Aquiares in Costa Rica. All images courtesy of the author, unless otherwise noted. As climate change continues to affect global agricultural systems, it is imperative that coffee producers and consumers alike progress towards sustainable solutions. There are countless examples of innovation in environmental sustainability throughout the coffee
2021 Colombia Cup of Excellence top winner Pablo Andrés Guerrero Pérez. All images courtesy of the Alliance for Coffee Excellence. The 2021 Colombia Cup of Excellence green coffee auction has earned the highest average price in the history of the more than 20-year-old Cup of Excellence program. In total, the June 3 auction of 25
Daily Coffee News photo by Nick Brown Fairtrade International and its United States branch Fairtrade America are sharing lessons culled from three years of work involving coffee farmers in Kenya as part of the group’s Climate Academy project in East Africa. The nonprofit certification agency is promoting a written guide along with a series of
2021 Ethiopia Cup of Excellence 1st- and 5th-place-winning coffee producer Tamiru Tadesse Tesema. All images courtesy of Cup of Excellence. The second-ever Ethiopia Cup of Excellence green coffee competition resulted in 39 lots scoring 87+ points, with five of those coffees exceeding the 90-point mark, according to an international jury. Representing different growing areas, processing
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