It’s been one year since the SCA set up the Price Crisis Response (PCR) Initiative, a one-year project tasked with producing a report of recommendations on both short- and long-term actions we can take to alleviate the crisis. JENN RUGOLO sat down with the SCA’s Chief Sustainability Officer, KIM ELENA IONESCU, to explore one of …
Graduate student MACKENZIE BATALI, Professor CARLITO LEBRILLA, Professor JEAN-XAVIER GUINARD, and Professor WILLIAM D. RISTENPART share surprising results of “fractionation” experiments at UC Davis exploring the natural sweetness of black drip brew coffee in partnership with the SCA and Breville Corporation. If you talk to aficionados of specialty coffee, however, you quickly learn that other …
JOANNA FURGIUELE asks: Do we really understand why young people are leaving coffee, or are we making damaging assumptions that keep us from finding real solutions? In Latin America, 20 percent of the region’s total population is between 15 and 24, the largest proportion of young people ever in the region’s history.[1] Across Africa, there …
But, says JONAS LEME FERRARESSO, there’s more to the country than high volumes and cutting-edge crop technology – Brazil’s coffee crop has undergone enormous changes and many challenges over the past century-and-a-half. It’s not just that Brazil has held the title of the highest coffee producing country for so long that makes some associate “Brazil” …
This year’s Festival of Two Cities took place in Seoul, bringing together political leaders, artists, musicians, researchers, tech innovators, and – as you may not have expected – the specialty coffee community. Many local specialty coffee communities meet regularly at events all over the world, from major international tradeshows to domestic coffee festivals. And so, …
The metropolitan capital of Manila is a city whose growing fascination with specialty coffee seems to closely rival its obsession with karaoke ballads — that’s saying a lot, considering old school love songs are the norm on even the most rickety jeepney ride. Since the coffee rust invasion of 1889, the Philippines has largely remained …
A medida que nos preparamos para publicar los resultados del trabajo de la Iniciativa Respuesta a la Crisis de Precios (PCR) de la SCA, queda claro que gestionar esta crisis – y pasar a una etapa de recuperación – va a exigir años de esfuerzo, colaboración e intervención. Es alentador, además, ver una serie de …
ANDREA ESTRELLA, STEVE BOUCHER, y CHRISTOPH SAENGER comparten los resultados de la colaboración en un estudio reciente llevado a cabo entre el proyecto de investigación TRANSSUSTAIN de la University of Muenster, la University of California Davis y la International Coffee Organization que podrían ayudar a construir un punto de referencia permanente para la rentabilidad de …
The Hague might be a bit under the radar but that has allowed it to develop an astonishing coffee scene all of its own. Amsterdam, watch out!
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By Peter Giuliano At the SCA, one of the most common questions we are asked has to do with how coffee is priced. How much of the cost of a cup of coffee comes from transporting the coffee from its place of origin, or from roasting loss, or from the labor at the coffee shop? …
