Coffee with a Cause: SCAA Aims to Give Back to Industry Charities
Multiple Fundraisers planned in conjunction with Specialty Coffee Association of America’s Annual Event, to be held April 11-14, 2013 Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), the world’s largest coffee trade association will be…
SCAA Announces Development of Sustainable Events Policy to Reduce Environmental Impact
Specialty Coffee Association of America commits to working towards conformity with APEX/ASTM sustainable event standards The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), in partnership with its Sustainability Council, is pleased to announce that…
Now Accepting Applications for 2013 SCAA Sustainability Award
We’re currently accepting entries for the 2013 SCAA Sustainability Award. If you, your company, or organization has innovative projects to expand and promote sustainability within the coffee world while inspiring others to initiate…
Meet 4 African Women Who Are Changing The Face Of Coffee: NPR Reports
By Allison Aubrey, National Public Radio (NPR) If you’re a coffee drinker, chances are the cup of java you drank this morning was made from beans that were produced or harvested by women….
Coffee and Climate Change: Reading Past the Headlines
By Emma Bladyka, SCAA Coffee Science Manager By now you have likely heard of the new scientific study published last week in the online peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE that has sparked a flurry…
Defining Specialty: An Origin Perspective
By Emilio Lopez Diaz, Coffee Producer, Cuatro M Single Origin Coffees Long gone are the days when coffee was just a commodity, when only big corporations would have access to coffee at origin,…
Sustainability is Dead. Long Live Sustainability!
By Peter Giuliano, Director of Coffee and Co-Owner at Counter Culture Coffee I was a young coffee person when the concept of sustainability became big news in coffee. In those days—the roaring ’90s of…
Critical Issues at Origin | Organizational Capacity Building: Key to Long-term Sustainability
By Warren E. Armstrong The SCAA Sustainability Council serves as a “think tank” for sustainability–related ideas and as a liaison to other industry, professional and NGO organizations. As part of its work, the…
Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role and Reasons for Business Involvement in Sustainable Development
By Tracy Ging, Deputy Executive Director, SCAA Corporate Social Responsibility is defined as the voluntary commitment of businesses to include in their corporate practices economic, social, and environmental criteria and…
Creating a Global Dialogue via the Culture of Coffee
Story by Majka Burhardt Photos by Travis Horn/Coffee Story Ethiopia Coffee can erase a famine. Agree? Disagree? Wonder just how literally I mean for that statement to be? How about this one: Coffee…
