How Low Employee Morale Jeopardizes Coffee Supply
By Kim Elena Ionescu, SCAA Director of Sustainability Coffee buyers, farmers, traders and baristas are becoming more aware of the important role that farm workers play in the quality coffee trade. The Sustainability Council of the SCAA identified that farm worker vulnerability is a key threat to our industry and began to focus on this …
Get Something Brewing: Making Great Coffee at Home
Sponsored story provided by KitchenAid®. Specialty coffee is about more than the absence of defects or off-flavors. It is about the pursuit of unique flavor attributes. It is about opening up a new world of experiences for the coffee drinker. It is about coffee producers and roasters sharing great coffee with their customers. It’s also about more than just the coffee experience delivered in a cafe setting. Bringing specialty …
Kraft Heinz Surplus Online & Onsite Auction
Sponsored content provided by Schneider Industries. Surplus Equipment is available from the ongoing operations of Kraft Heinz, including a powdered coffee & soda drink processing and packaging equipment. Onsite & Online Bidding: Thursday, July 21 ∙ 10 AM PDT Location: Kraft Heinz Plant – San Leandro, CA Inspection: Wednesday, July 20 ∙ 9 AM to …
Roasters Guild Trierside Chat: Regional Roasting Groups
Streamed live on Jun 29, 2016 Roasters Guild Trierside Chat explores regional roasting groups: the good, the bad, the ugly, and how to form one.
The WHO IARC Decision: What it Means for You & Your Coffee
By Emma Sage, SCAA Coffee Science Manager The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has announced that they are re-classifying coffee from a “group 2B” to a “group 3” substance (Loomis and others 2016). This means that coffee is in the clear and is no longer officially linked with being a …
Water in the Coffeelands: How Coffee Can Make Water Cleaner and Landscapes Greener
By Meredith Taylor Water management is a difficult issue to address in coffee-growing regions because many of the impacts tied to water pollution and shortages are often downstream from their causes—both literally and temporally. While the issues around water as it relates to coffee are complex, they fall into two basic, overlapping categories: having enough …
Reflections from the Farmworkers Sustainability Panel
By Miguel Zamora The issue of farmworkers was very present at this year’s SCAA Expo. The Sustainability Council of the SCAA organized a panel to discuss some of the challenges we face as an industry in this regard. This is the third year in a row that Sustainability Council members have moderated panels to discuss farmworkers and that …
SCAA Releases July 2016 Retail Sentiment Index (RSI) Report
SCAA’s Specialty Coffee Retail Sentiment Index (RSI) is a semiannual indicator that measures coffee retailers’ degree of optimism on their own situation and the industry. The purpose is to provide data that reflects the overall sentiment and, over time, it will be used to identify trends and offer insight on the segment’s movement. The RSI …
CoLab Paris 2015 – Afternoon Panel Q&A
All CoLab: Paris ‘coffeetalks’ – by speakers such as Klaus Thomsen, Katie Carguilo and Morten Münchow – were produced by our content partner Tamper Tantrum. We’ll be releasing the videos of these talks over the next months so we keep fuelling discussion and building an inventory of knowledge. Don’t hesitate to share your comments, thoughts or …
Green Coffee Buyers Are Searching Online—Will They Find You?
Sponsored story provided by Cropster. Roasted coffee options for consumers are exploding online. Specialty coffee shops and roasters offer every coffee imaginable, supermarkets and big box shops offer everything from instant through beans to pods through capsules – often selling all manner of coffee devices alongside. There are even subscription services that send consumers a …
Exploring the Cost of Sustainable Coffee Production, Part 2: A Recap from the SCAA Expo
By Ashley Prentice During SCAA Expo, two excellent sessions on the cost of sustainable coffee production were presented, but why is this topic important and relevant to our industry today? As Chad Trewick best explained it in his article, Why Learn About the Cost of Production (Read Here), “The coffee industry—and not only the specialty sector, …
Exploring the Cost of Sustainable Production, Part 1: Tactics and Output
By Vera Espindola “Exploring the Cost of Sustainable Production,” the second in a series of Sustainability sessions during the 2016 SCAA Expo, was an opportunity to share updates and information about ongoing research on the economics of coffee production. A panel representing research partnerships presented their indicators, methodologies and early findings. Presenter 1: Pascale Schuit | …