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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

The Maverick Coffee Trading logo. All images courtesy of Maverick Coffee Trading. A green coffee trading company called Maverick Coffee Trading has sprung to life in The Netherlands, focusing on coffees from numerous countries and continents of origin. Based in Woerden in the central Netherlands, Maverick was founded by UK native and longtime coffee trading

A traffic jam as people from Goma seek refuge from volcanic eruptions in the Eastern DRC. Image courtesy of On the Ground. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced near prominent coffee lands in the Democratic Republic of Congo following last weekend’s deadly eruption of Mount Nyiragongo near the city of Goma. The threat

Nick Brown | May 27, 2021 IWCA Executive Director Sarada Krishnan. IWCA/Jamaican Women in Coffee (JWiC) photo. Decorated coffee scientist and coffee sector leader Dr. Sarada Krishnan has been appointed to the role of executive director of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance. In the role, Krishnan will oversee IWCA programs, fundraising and events while directing

Agriculture-loving Texas A&M University is sowing its first seeds in the coffee business, offering fresh roasts of single-origin Guatemalan beans under the name 12th Man Coffee. With a brand name appealing to the university’s all-too-faithful sports fan base, the coffee product is financially benefiting the work of the coffee geeks down at the  Norman Borlaug

Hawaiian coffee plants showing signs of coffee leaf rust (CLR). Hawaii Board of Agriculture photo. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted a request from the Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) to allow the use of a chemical fungicide in the state’s emerging battle against coffee leaf rust disease. Coffee leaf rust, which

Coffee Trust and Cocomiel Founder Bill Fishbein. Courtesy photo. One of the United States specialty coffee industry’s original progressive voices and a longtime advocate for coffee producers, Bill Fishbein has witnessed some four decades of changes in the coffee trade. Importantly, the 2002 Specialty Coffee Association of America Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Coffee Kids co-founder

The Nicaraguan coffee commission CONTRADEC at the Nicaragua 2021 Cup of Excellence awards ceremony earlier this month. All images courtesy of Cup of Excellence. Following a record-breaking 2020 auction in terms of prices, the 2021 Nicaragua Cup of Excellence competition has approached its own records in terms of quality, with four COE-winning coffees eclipsing the

Rainforest Alliance CEO Santiago Gowland. Rainforest Alliance photo. The international nonprofit Rainforest Alliance has announced today that former The Nature Conservancy executive Santiago Gowland is taking over as CEO. Gowland’s career prior to his time as executive vice president for Latin America and global innovation at the TNC was spent largely in the private sector,

Daily Coffee News file photo by Nick Brown Daily Coffee News photo by Nick Brown.Electric roaster maker Bellwether Coffee, the nonprofit Heifer International and green coffee trader Sustainable Harvest this morning announced a new pricing model that transparently ties green coffee purchases to living income benchmarks for coffee farmers. The organizations described the purchasing model,

Afternoon sunlight on the brick walls outside the offices of the forthcoming CPNCK Coffee cooperative facility. University of Buffalo press photo. Local crews are putting the finishing touches on a new coffee facility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that might help inform future inclusive coffee facility designs. Located on the Idjwi Island

2019 file photo, courtesy of the Hawaii Coffee Association. Following a year characterized by disease outbreaks affecting both humans and plants, the Hawaii Coffee Association is preparing to host its 2021 conference online. Corresponding with the two-day event, taking place June 24-25, will be the finale of the Association’s 12th statewide cupping competition, including an

Federico Ceballos-Sierra, University of Illinois, surveys coffee plants at his family farm in Colombia. Credit: College of AC ES, University of Illinois. New research focused on Colombia suggests that if current conditions and practices persist, climate change will dramatically reshape where arabica coffee can be grown by the middle part of this century. Coming from

The cover of the new Shade Catalog by Conservation International, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and World Coffee Research. Agroforestry, i.e. the integration of trees and shrubs into cultivated cropland, has been widely touted as beneficial to the environment. It can provide shade to sun-baked crop plants and soils, protect and enhance biodiversity, attract life-giving pollinators,

A session with coffee farmers in Colombia as part of the Vinculum pilot program in Tolima. All images courtesy of Vinculum. A European venture called Vinculum has launched a pilot program in the coffee lands of Colombia using artificial intelligence and satellite data designed to help farmers mitigate production and financial risks. Vinculum’s AI combines

Coffee leaf rust causes brown spots on coffee leaves and typically reduces or eliminates coffee cherry yield. The image “coffee leaf rust defoliation” by Michael C. Wright is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Colombian coffee leaders are urging growers to turn to disease-resistant coffee varieties upon the discovery of new, more aggressive variants of the

Café Los Sueños Co-Founder Carlos Payes outside the new shop in Baltimore. All images courtesy of Café Los Sueños. Baltimore residents dreaming of a new place for quality coffee had a happy awakening this month with the opening of the first brick-and-mortar shop of Café Los Sueños Roasting Co. The new shop’s deep teal painted

The dark fruit of Coffea Stenophylla, which resembles arabica in size and perhaps in quality. All images courtesy of CIRAD. More than two years after the rediscovery of what’s being popularly referred to as the “lost coffee species” ’ formally Coffea Stenophylla ’ researchers have triumphantly offered a potential gustatory alternative to the arabica coffee species

The International Women’s Coffee Alliance (IWCA) has made a major play in bringing its members’ coffees to market through a new agreement with the international wholesale distributor of Mutombo Coffee, Cajary Majlis. Based at the Dubai Multi-Commodities Centre (DMCC) free zone with offices in Atlanta and New Orleans, Cajary Majlis is the wholesale distributor and

Natural-process coffee on a raised drying bed. Daily Coffee News photo. Researchers from parts of Africa and Europe have shed new light on how climate change may affect what’s considered “specialty coffee” growth in Ethiopia throughout the rest of this century. Incorporating advanced modeling for climates, topography and soils using specific geographical reference points throughout

Javae Coffee offers both green coffee and roasted coffee from Haiti. Photo by Mario Charles, courtesy of Javae Coffee. A five-year-old coffee importing and roasting company called Javae Coffee has become an advocate both for Black people who grow coffee and for a broader consumer base of Black coffee drinkers hundreds or thousands of miles

Cocomiel is importing green coffee, honey and other products to the United States. Courtesy photo. A relatively new brand with deep roots in the coffee sustainability movement called Cocomiel (styled as “CocoMiel”) has announced its United States nationwide launch, offering single-origin, traceable Guatemalan green coffee alongside unfiltered honey. Cocomiel is one of the numerous progressive

Buna works with Mexican producers through soil testing and management practices. All images courtesy of Buna. Launched as a small cafe by a pair of high school friends in 2019, Mexico City-based coffee company Buna has since evolved to offer a unique vision for protecting Mexican ecosystems. Now a full-fledged roasting company with high-end restaurant

Daily Coffee News Staff | April 20, 2021 The National Coffee Association of Guatemala Anacafé has announced the launch of a high-quality, small lot green coffee auction program called One of a Kind Guatemala. According to an announcement from the group, One of a Kind Guatemala will connect coffee producers to international markets with a

The nonprofit Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE) and Yemeni coffee organization Qima Coffee are reprising their high-end coffee auction with potentially more coffees and  additional positive outcomes for coffee farmers throughout Yemen. For the Best of Yemen 2021 auction, tentatively scheduled to take place online in August, the groups are working to scale the program

Just as coffee is a living, changing thing, so too is the industry’s collective evaluation of it. One organization pushing the envelope in coffee evaluation is the professional education-focused Sustainable Coffee Institute (SCI). After years of development, the Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit has released a new cupping form and associated cupping protocols, free resources designed to

2021 Colombia Cup of Excellence winning producer Pablo Andrés Guerrero in Nariño. Image courtesy of the Alliance for Coffee Excellence. Results for the Cup of Excellence green coffee competition of 2021 are in, with nearly two dozen high-quality coffee lots coming from Colombian coffee growers now heading to auction. The winning producers were celebrated during

Traded volumes of high-quality specialty coffee declined as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic while volumes of lower-quality specialty coffees increased, according to a recent analysis from the authors of the Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide. Peter W. Roberts and Chad Trewick penned the 19-page report documenting the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on specialty coffee purchasing behaviors

The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo by Susan Heller Evenson. Hours before Myanmar’s new parliament was set to begin session on Monday, Feb. 1, Myanmar’s armed forces known as the Tatmadaw staged a coup d’état. State Counsellor and de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint, and other elected members and high-ranking officials of