Internal Consumption Strengthens Brazil’s Coffee Market Clout
By Marvin G. Perez Brazil’s coffee growers are enjoying the best of times—almost. With the country’s economy among the fastest-growing in the world and with demand for its agricultural crops on a tear,…
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…
A Look at Key Trends in the World of Tea
By Dan Bolton World Tea Media and experts say that tea’s trajectory continues its climb. With noteworthy trends in play, such as celebrity tea lines and growth on a retail level, tea reaches…
The Seven Most Common Mistakes Coffee Companies Make When Going Global and How To Avoid Them
by Mona Pearl In the not too distant future, businesses will be placed into one of two categories: those that skillfully entered into the global marketplace and those that sheepishly exited out of…
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…
The (Coffee) World is Flat
By Peter Giuliano Coffea Arabica and Homo Sapiens have a lot in common. Both evolved in Ethiopia, and crossed the Red Sea before fanning out all over the globe. The human race inhabited…
