An update from the CBFANC Ocean Committee regarding Ports America Outer Harbor Terminal. The January 19, 2016 announcement from Ports America terminal terminating operations in 30 days at Port Oakland gave short notice to Port of Oakland who in turn gave their own press release mid-afternoon. News that Ports America was pulling out 6 years […]
Reinventing the (Flavor) Wheel: Industry Collaborates to Identify Coffee Flavor Attributes
Jamaica coffee prices are at an all-time high, yet the industry’s earnings are at an all-time low. This apparent contradiction led the IFC, the financing arm of the World Bank, to embark on a technical support project worth over US$560,000 ($67 million) to improve the productivity of the globally respected crop. The project, revealed this […]
Paris/Arlington, Va. USA (December 1, 2015) – Today, at the U.N. climate negotiations, Conservation International (CI) announced the launch of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge — a call to action to make coffee the first sustainable agricultural product in the world. The announcement comes as ministers gather to write a new climate agreement and as momentum […]
Report by AFKinsider The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) has launched a national traceability system that will make it possible for international buyers to track the footprint of Ethiopian coffee in granular detail. The new electronic tagging system worth $4.5 million — powered by IBM and Frequenz IRIS technology — encompass over five million smallholder farmers […]
By Max Plenke October 06, 2015 As I type this sentence, I’m chewing on half a cup of cold-brew coffee gelatinized into a gummy cube. I’ve been chewing them in lieu of a morning iced coffee for two days. My focus is up. My bathroom breaks are down. My dad jokes are on point, which […]
CYNTHIA FLORES MORA (WORLD BANK) More than 500,000 families in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have nothing to eat due to a record drought. On a hot June day, Gerónimo Carrasco makes one of the most difficult decisions of his life. He thought to himself, “the rains won’t come,” so he sold his two […]
by Caitlin McCarthy-Garcia The coffee industry was built on exploration and discovery. Continuous innovations in coffee lead to advancements in growing, roasting, evaluating and brewing tastier coffee. The boundaries of quality are constantly being tested and pushed. New research in the field of sensory science, presented at the Specialty Coffee Association’s Symposium, will redefine how […]
SAN SALVADOR, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Central American and Caribbean governments on Thursday issued an official alert as severe drought in the region damages the crops of some 1.6 million people. As part of the step, governments from the farming-dependent region pledged to help afflicted families and coordinate international relief efforts to deal with the […]