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.
Martin Wiesinger | Technology’s Impact On Quality
Martin Wiesinger, co-Founder of Cropster, explains how data has the potential to revolutionize coffee quality. A computer scientist, Wiesinger explains data-driven approaches and how advances in computing are pushing us into new territory, starting with “rate-of-rise” and correlating cupping and roasting data.
Hanna Neuschwander | The Coffee Seed: A Forgotten Technology
Hanna Neuschwander of World Coffee Research gives an illuminating talk on our most fundamental of coffee technologies: the plant itself. She calls attention to the disparities in innovation between the coffee plant and other technologies, and the critical need for more research and development.
Back to School: Coffee Education and Academia | Letter From The Editor
Since I was a kid through my college years, I was always eager to go to school. I like learning, being exposed to different ways of thinking about things, and looking at life through the perspectives of those who have come before us. Sometimes history repeats itself and it becomes clear that we need to …
East Meets West: Everything Old is New Again
By Andrew Hetzel Earlier this year, I voted alongside fellow SCAA Board Members unanimously in favor of pursuing unification with SCAE. We recognize that such momentous change will not be easy. In return, the price of that effort promises a new world of benefits for our members. Yet, it wasn’t until weeks after this vote …