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by Brewing America | Aug 3, 2020 | All, Central America, COVID-19, Farmer Issues, FMO, Mercon Coffee Group, nonprofits, Origin, Rosa Rivas, Seeds for Progress Foundation | 0 |
The education-focused Nicaraguan nonprofit Seeds for Progress and the Mercon Coffee Group have launched a COVID-19 relief project affecting coffee-growing communities in Nicaragua as they prepare for harvest season....
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 29, 2020 | Africa, All, Brazil, Central America, coffee prices, COVID-19, data, Ethiopia, Farmer Issues, Guatemala, Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung, Honduras, Indonesia, nonprofits, Origin, prices, research, smallholder issues, smallholders, South America, surveys, Sustainability, Tanzania, Uganda | 0 |
The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating a range of existing issues facing smallholder coffee farmers in some of the world’s most revered and productive coffee-producing countries, according to a recent...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 28, 2020 | All, Angela Pelaez, awards, Bogota, Caldas, Colombia, corporate sustainability, Farmer Issues, farmworkers, labor issues, Las Manos del Café, Origin, RGC Americas, RGC Coffee, SCA Sustainability Awards, smallholder issues, social sustainability, South America, Specialty Coffee Association, Sustainability | 0 |
As the seed-to-cup narrative typically begins with coffee farmers, it thereby leaves out a critical group of people who make coffee production possible: farmworkers. Farmworkers remain the most vulnerable...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 24, 2020 | All, Cecafé, Corporate, DanWatch, Espirito Santo, Farmer Issues, forced labor, Global Coffee Platform, Industry, InPacto, International, labor issues, Minas Gerais, modern day slavery, Origin, Repórter Brasil, slavery, South America, Sustainability, United States | 0 |
The nonprofit Global Coffee Platform (GCP) is launching a four-year initiative tackling the ongoing issue of modern day slavery in the Brazilian coffee sector. Organized in coordination with the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 22, 2020 | Africa, All, Beni, Columns, Coopade, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dirk Sickmueller, DRC, Ebola, Farm Africa, Farmer Issues, Grainpro, green coffee, Jean-Christophe Galland, Kawa Kanzururu, Kirindera washing station, Kirindera Women’s Peace Coffee, Malongo, Market News, mudslides, Mutsora, natural disasters, Ngingi, Origin, Rombouts, Sustainability, Uganda, Virunga National Park, Volcafe, Volcafé Select | 0 |
On top of the typical challenges facing coffee growers, farmers in North Kivu in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo this harvest season have seen attacks by armed groups,...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 20, 2020 | All, Allan Discua-Cruz, Café Aruco, Café Papatoño, Central America, Columns, COVID-19, Donaldo Gonzalez, Farmer Issues, Honduras, Leonardo Borjas, Origin, Sustainability | 0 |
I am a third-generation member of a farming family in Honduras. I fondly remember getting up before dawn every day and riding several miles on the back of a mule…
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 20, 2020 | All, Alliance for Coffee Excellence, auctions, Central America, Cometeer, CONTRADEC, Cup of Excellence, Events, Farmer Issues, Finca Fátima, Goodboybob Coffee, Harrods, Industry, International, Kaffebrenneriet, Market News, Maruyama Coffee, Miguel Obando, Nicaragua, Origin, Sugi Coffee, Sustainability, Takamura Coffee Roasters, Tania Ferrufino, zoom | 0 |
Underscoring the vast price disparity between the commodity coffee market and the high-end specialty market, the auction from the 16th Nicaragua Cup of Excellence program resulted in a record-breaking...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 17, 2020 | All, Blanca Castro, Farmer Issues, green coffee, Industry, International, International Women's Coffee Alliance, IWCA, IWCA Coffee Availability List, Market News, Marketing, Origin, People | 0 |
The International Women’s Coffee Alliance (IWCA) has introduced a new coffee availability list called CAL 2.0, featuring the women and IWCA chapter members who produced the coffees. The nonprofit...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 16, 2020 | All, child labor, COVID-19, Farmer Issues, farmworkers, forced labor, Industry, labor issues, Origin, Sustainability, Verité, Verité COFFEE project | 0 |
One of the recurring notions in today’s first session of the Re:co specialty coffee symposium — being held online this year — was that the largest of the large...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 15, 2020 | All, Cedro Alto, Coffee Economics with Karl, Columns, cost of production, Farmer Issues, importers, Karl Wienhold, microlots, Origin, South America, video | 0 |
In the last episode of Coffee Economics with Karl, host Karl Wienhold of the Colombian coffee trading company Cedro Alto explored how microlots often work in the green coffee...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 15, 2020 | All, Boot Coffee, Cafinorte, Cafioccidente, Cauca, Cencoic, Coffee for Peace, Colombia, Craft/Operations, David Pohl, Events, Farmer Issues, FNC, Industry, International, KC O'Keefe, Market News, Origin, Roasting, Santander de Quilichao, South America, Sustainability, USAID | 0 |
The organizers of the Coffee for Peace project are launching an event called the Virtual Buyers Caravan, designed to bring coffee farmers and potential buyers together online. The four-day...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 9, 2020 | All, Bean Voyage, Canada Feminist International Assistance Policy, Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI), Central America, COVID-19, COVIR-20, Farmer Issues, farmer training, gender equity, gender issues, grants, ICAFE, nonprofits, Origin, smallholders, Sustainability, technical assistance, WhatsApp | 0 |
The socially driven nonprofit Bean Voyage is entering into new virtual territory with a program designed to empower women smallholder coffee farmers in the COVID-19 era. The group has...
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