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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

2017 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 2012, 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

A scene from a Fincas Mierisch farm in Nicaragua. All images courtesy of ACE/Fincas Mierisch. Renowned Nicaraguan specialty coffee producer Fincas Mierisch and the Portland, Oregon-based Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE) have re-teamed up to relaunch the Los Favoritos auction. Taking place online on Tuesday, May 18, following international judging led by ACE, the auction

Researchers are exploring the potential of coffee growth in areas currently suitable for citrus growth. For centuries, coffee has been grown between two somewhat arbitrary lines above and below the equator. The stretch between roughly the 23.43°S and 23.43°N parallels — also known as tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, respectively — is also often referred

Cup of Excellence courtesy photo. After a year of leaning more heavily on the internet to deliver its flagship competitions and auctions, the nonprofit Cup of Excellence is offering some new coffee sensory training to the public at large through online events. Two new education- and calibration-focused programs are forthcoming from COE, and both refer

CIRAD photo from a coffee farmer survey in Nicaragua. Several of the world’s largest coffee roasting and trading companies have joined a pre-competitive research initiative with the goal of progressively reducing pesticide usage in coffee farming. The initiative, called Ecoffee R&D Initiative (styled as ECOFFEE by the group), is being coordinated by the pioneering French

Coffee pulp being delivered to the test site in Costa Rica. All images by Rebecca Cole, courtesy of the British Ecological Society. New research has found that coffee pulp, a natural organic byproduct of post-harvest coffee processing, can exponentially speed up tropical forest recovery on previously deforested lands. Researchers from the British Ecological Society reported “dramatic

Cargo ships at port. A rare mainstream international cargo shipping story reached a welcome turning point today as the skyscraper-sized container ship the Ever Given was finally dislodged from the banks of the Suez Canal in Egypt. The nearly weeklong blockage of the canal — a vital trade route between Asia and Europe — will

The Samayoa family receiving a green coffee shipment in Central Georgia. All images courtesy of Over The Border Coffee. A seventh-generation, 200-acre coffee farm in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, has gained a foothold selling its coffees directly to consumers and wholesale accounts in Georgia through Over The Border Coffee. The family-run startup coffee company, founded by Tabitha

Coffee in Yemen is typically grown on terraced hillsides. All images courtesy of Amal Yemen. A growing number of coffee companies and volunteers have banded together to launch Amal Yemen, a consortium and event platform to promote Yemeni coffee and culture. Amal Yemen, which translates to “Hope for Yemen,” will debut with a Friday, April

Courtesy photo from the Alliance for Coffee Excellence in 2017. The nonprofit Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE) has announced that the Cup of Excellence (COE) program and coffee genetics research firm RD2 Vision have signed a memorandum of understanding for genetic testing of COE-winning coffees. In an announcement yesterday, COE organizer ACE said the partnership

Mutima Coffee Co-Founders and Co-CEOs Sharon and Sheila Kasasa. All images courtesy of Mutima Coffee. Two sisters born in Uganda and raised in the United States have launched Mutima Coffee, an online retail company offering high-quality coffees grown in the East African country. The Mount Elgon region of Eastern Uganda near the Kenyan border is