Melanie Landthaler | Who’s Producing Your Coffee? – Gender Equality In Specialty Sourcing Strategies
Women are often responsible for the actual labor of coffee production, but rarely receive premiums or training to improve their livelihood and their work. In this #RecoDublin talk Melanie Landthaler, an independent sustainability consultant who has recently worked with Nespresso on gender equality in the coffee value chain, explains why this is a problem and …
Cerianne Bury: Competing For More – Women in Competition
Gender imbalance in coffee can often be extreme: this is apparent in barista competitions where women compete at a rate nearly three times lower than men. In this #RecoDublin talk, Cerianne Bury, Head of Quality at Trabocca, looks at how lack of support, lack of representation, and a number of other issues can create and …
Sarah Bennett | The Necessary ‘Beerification’ of Coffee
Sarah Bennett is a freelance journalist specializing in the culture, industry and business of craft beer. This talk is from the inaugural Bloom event in Los Angeles, CA.
Katie Carguilo | Quality is a Moving Target
Katie Carguilo talks about coffee quality at the inaugural Bloom event in Los Angeles in the Spring of 2016. Katie works in the coffee department for Counter Culture Coffee as the Quality Analyst for their west coast roasting facility in Emeryville, CA.
Charles Babinski | Coffee Not Difficult: How I Make Coffee Good
The 2015 U.S. Barista Champion talks about the importance of the coffee retail experience as a whole at the inaugural Bloom event in Los Angeles, CA.
Colleen Anunu: Gender: Workplace, Origin, Competition
Gender is a powerful and necessary lens to understand disparities in access and resources. Colleen Anunu, Sr. Manager of Coffee Supply for Fair Trade USA, lays the groundwork for talking about these issues that are interwoven into all aspects of the value chain, with this introduction to the Re:co Symposium Dublin session “Gender: Workplace, Origin, …
Roasters Guild Trierside Chat – SCAA/SCAE Unification
Streamed live on Sep 28, 2016
For the Love of Coffee: International Coffee Day to be Held on October 1
On October 1st, the coffee world will celebrate International Coffee Day. This is a day for honoring the people who work in coffee, appreciating the passion that coffee creates, as well as taking the opportunity to inform consumers about coffee as a global product. We encourage you to get involved on International Coffee Day! Here are a …
Moving Mountains Starts in Hawaii
By Nora Burkey One of the most inspiring conversations I had this year was inside of a small room at the Georgia World Conference Center with Michael Sheridan, Kim Elena Ionescu, and Carla D. Martin, where we discussed the issue of coffee farm workers. Malian Lahey, a coffee farm owner in Hawaii, stood up to …
Kim Elena Ionescu: Working for Workers: Lessons of Labour Shortages
Coffee production is facing a labor crisis at the farm level, with pickers in particular abandoning coffee work.
Cristina Talens | The UK Modern Slavery Act & Coffee
The recently-passed UK Modern Slavery Act has spurred much discussion around labor issues and how we can encourage more responsible sourcing.
Solomon Edossa | Traceability in the ECX: A pilot study
Solomon Edossa is the CEO, DESS INC and former CIO and Technical Advisorto the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX), which coordinates the auctioning and marketing of Ethiopian coffee.