agriculture

Caravela Coffee teams up with the Center for Coffee Research and Education at Texas A&M University

The partnership will foster academic, scientific and development programmes and research focused on agriculture and coffee sciences to benefit the peoples of developing countries across the globe.

Blending, roasting & processing, Business, Origins, Sustainability

The Organic Center and Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research announce $600,000 for advancement of organic agriculture

Funds will support a prize for training and extension as well as innovative research projects that address climate change mitigation and resiliency.

Sustainability

Analysing Colombia’s internal coffee market price and the new Stabilization Fund

Colombia made history back in February when it officially launched the Coffee Price Stabilization Fund. The fund will aid the country’s smallholders who had been severely impacted by the commodity price collapse over the last few years, but the fund has a broader ambition than just propping up prices when commodity markets are low.

Business, Origins

Sustainable Coffee Challenge welcomes new partners

The Sustainable Coffee Challenge has announced 14 new partners joining the Challenge’s mission to make coffee the world’s first sustainable agricultural product.

Business, Sustainability

Olam launches prize for innovations in global food security

The award searches for ground-breaking scientific research that can deliver transformational impacts within global agriculture; winners will be supplied with a $75,000 grant to support development and implementation.

Sustainability

Rainforest Alliance announces enhanced certification programme and standard

The new programme consists of the Sustainable Agriculture Standard with requirements for farms and supply chains, along with a new assurance system and a suite of tools to measure progress towards sustainability objectives.

Sustainability

November 2019 Green Coffee Report

This November saw a technical rally in the Arabica futures market and a slew of fresh fundamentals. With the conclusion of the 2018-2019 global coffee crop in September, focus shifted to the 2019-2020 crop.

Business