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We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to build a new home for SCA News at sca.coffee/news. You’ll still be able to find our entire back catalog – stretching back years! – while we move things across. In the meantime, head over to our new home for the latest stories, updates, podcasts, and videos!
Ask an Expert Webinar: Mental Health and Stress
Ask the Expert: Food Safety and COVID-19 Join us on Friday, March 27, at 8 am PDT / 3 pm GMT for a webinar with licensed marriage and family therapist and self-care coach Courtney Muir and representatives of all three guilds. Register here. In this webinar, she will discuss why COVID-19 is bringing up intense …
2020 Expo and Re:co Canceled, Both Return to New Orleans in 2021
After many weeks of discussions with our partners regarding the impacts of COVID-19 on SCA events, today we are sad to announce that the 2020 Re:co Symposium and Specialty Coffee Expo scheduled to take place in Portland in April is now canceled. Unfortunately, no other viable dates were available for the show to take place …
Flash Survey: COVID-19 Impacts on Coffee Business
Update (March 24, 2020): After receiving a large number of responses, we’ve closed this poll for now. We anticipate reopening it again in three-to-four weeks’ time to evaluate how the situation continues to evolve. Thank you for your interest and participation! As a part of the global Specialty Coffee community, the SCA is deeply concerned …
Community-Contributed COVID-19 Resource Database Now Available
Coffee communities around the world have been greatly impacted by closures to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19, and we are watching with great concern as it begins to reach coffee-growing communities. In each case, the precarious position of laborers, from baristas to pickers and packers, has never been more apparent. This is an unprecedented …
Ask an Expert Webinar: Food Safety and COVID-19
Ask the Expert: Food Safety and COVID-19 On March 20 at 8am PDT / 3pm GMT the Specialty Coffee Association hosted a webinar about Food Safety and COVID-19. Watch it here. Join us for a webinar with food safety expert and coffee consultant Mike Ebert and the chairs of all three guilds. The aim of …
COVID-19 Update: World of Coffee and Warsaw World Coffee Championships Postponed, Further Updates to Follow
Today, we are announcing an agreement with our partners at PTAK Warsaw Expo to postpone World of Coffee to October 15–17, 2020, the only dates available in 2020. We have informed all of our exhibitors and visitors via email, and our exhibitions team will be sharing more information next week. We’d like to thank the …
COVID-19 Update: Melbourne World Coffee Championships Postponed, Further Updates to Follow
Update March 12, 2020 | Since our announcement released yesterday, March 11, we have received many messages of support from members of the specialty coffee community around the world, for which we’re very thankful, and also some new questions, to which we hope to respond as soon as possible. In that time, the US government established …
#91 | A Sixth Era of Coffee? Specialty and Sustainability in Historical and Anthropological Perspective | WOC Lectures 2019
This session brings together recent work on the history and anthropology of coffee in the context of a discussion about the role of specialty in rebalancing the fundamentals of the market. Professor Jonathan Morris presents an overview of the history of price volatility across the five eras of coffee history he has identified, with some …
Meet the 2020 SCA Lithuania Chapter Committee
SCA members in Lithuania have cast their ballots in the 2020 elections to select their new leadership. Today, we are delighted to welcome the SCA Lithuania Chapter’s new committee: National Coordinator: Nidas Kiuberis Membership/Community Coordinator: Viktorija Martinkiene Marketing & Communications Coordinator: Diana Augunaite Events Coordinator: Laurynas Arlauskas Education Coordinator: Akvile Armonaite We send a special thank you to …
Constructing Education: Meet SCA Education Content Creator David Miller
SUSIE KEALY draws a spotlight to one of our long-term volunteers in a series on SCA News. This month, she’s interviewed DAVID MILLER, a content creator for the new Coffee Technicians Program (CTechP) and chair of the Coffee Technicians Guild (CTG) Education Committee. Photo by Tyler Dean Johnston. A former mechanic with an extensive expertise in …
#90 | Trends in the European Coffee Market | WOC Lectures 2019
Consumer-driven changes will reshape the global coffee world. To help companies throughout the coffee value chain prepare for the future, today’s presenters – Maria Castroviejo and Michaël de Groot – look ten years ahead at key change they expect to stir up the coffee market, offering a TED-style discussion about how changes in consumer preferences, …