The Power of Story: Behind Cause Coffees
By Scott Conary “I don’t really like coffee…” And with these words, you are stopped short. All of your well-constructed arguments and delightfully thought out taste descriptions forced back in a choking cough….
Direct Trade: Going Straight to the Source
By Shanna Germain Direct trade has long been a hot button in the specialty coffee industry. Ask 10 coffee people what the phrase means, and you’ll get 10 different answers. Listen in at…
SCAA 2012 Special Event Lectures – Emerging Markets in Asia
During your time at The Event make sure to take advantage of all the educational lectures and presentations that will help you develop as a coffee professional. All presentations are given by respected…
This is Where We Start
By Sarah Beaubien, with contributions by Al Liu, Mark Stell and Janice Nadworny Historically, coffee has been a crop grown to satisfy the demand of the developed world at the cost of a…
To Market, To Market: What the New Economy Means for Sourcing Strategies
By Shanna Germain Increased pricing. Decreased availability. Contract defaults. Closer relationships with producers… The current market situation is having huge impacts all across the coffee industry, but perhaps nowhere more so than at…
Developing a Development Approach for Coffee
by Andrew Sargent, Michael Opitz, and Jan von Enden Nearly a decade after the coffee crisis of 2000/2001 and the subsequent introduction of several industry efforts to address its causes, consequences, and related issues,…
Coffee Quality and Sustainability: The Issues Challenging and Changing Our World
By Shauna Alexander Mohr In the mid-1990s, before most industries were tackling sustainability, specialty coffee companies came together with NGOs and research institutions to address issues such as shade-grown coffee, organics and Fair…
Our Top Four: The 2011 SCAA Sustainability Award Finalists
By SCAA’s Sustainability Council The Sustainability Council created the Sustainability Award in 2003 to promote, encourage and honor the efforts of those serving as role models in fields of sustainability. Each year, the…
Coffee and Sustainability: Are we Having the Impact we Intend?
By Tracy Ging Sustainability has been part of the discourse in the specialty coffee industry almost from the beginning and certainly for a better part of the past two decades. Early on, with…
The Specialty Coffee Industry Shows Initiative Worldwide
By Bruce Mullins The specialty coffee industry’s Global Coffee Quality Research Initiative (GCQRI) has officially been launched, and has begun its historic multi-year journey towards a more complete understanding of the science behind…
