Nina Lakhani Neris Gonzalez would journey 25km every week from her rural village in San Vicente, El Salvador to the nearest town in order to phone Archbishop Oscar Romero. Gonzalez, a 23-year-old community leader, would recount the latest murders, disappearances and mutilations committed by security forces in her district to the Archbishop. This was 1978, […]
UPDATE 1-Honduras coffee exports fall by more than a fifth in 2012/2013 – RTRS 01-Oct-2013 20:01 TEGUCIGALPA, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Coffee exports from Honduras, Central America’s top producer, fell 20.8 percent during the 2012/2013 season compared to the previous cycle because of the deadly fungal outbreak roya, the country’s national coffee institute IHCAFE said […]
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Mexico’s Congress will consider spending 2.75 billion pesos ($212 million) to help coffee farmers hit by a major outbreak of leaf rust and falling prices, a senior lawmaker said on Wednesday. The funding would aim to provide farmers with subsidies, replace ageing plantations, and give […]
NCA Tracks Consumption Patterns By Generation New NCDT Tracking Study Examines Behaviors of Millennials, Generation X and Baby Boomers New York, NY (September 26, 2013) – NCA has published Coffee Across Generations, a new report in the NCA’s National Coffee Drinking Trends market research series. The report analyzes differences in consumption behaviors and attitudes among […]
The EU restored aid earlier this year but not to farms on ‘disputed’ land – excluding the majority of small coffee growers Beta A misty dawn has not yet given way to daylight in Zimbabwe’s eastern highlands. Lenard Moyo, a coffee farmer near Chipinge town, is prising red arabica beans out of their trees and […]
NEW YORK—Arabica-coffee futures tumbled to their lowest price in more than four years as investors focused on massive global supplies. Earlier this week, the Green Coffee Association, an industry group, said U.S. stocks of unroasted coffee in August rose 2.4% from the previous month to 5.56 million 60-kilogram (132-pound) bags. That is the most coffee […]
Biologists at Stanford have for the first time put a monetary value on the pest-control benefits of birds on coffee farms. While the research was localized to a Costa Rican farm, it may help shed some light for coffee producers worldwide on how to mitigate borer beetle infestations through better land management. The Stanford biologists […]
Dear Member, For the past ten years the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) has occupied waterfront offices in downtown Long Beach, California. This space has served us well, albeit at a not inconsiderable cost. Over the past four years the association management has begun to promote two new concepts around how and where we […]
” Dear Joe, I am trying to bring the coffee bags over today but our truck has a bit of problem as we are trying to get it sorted, esp., with registration. Also the weather is not good as it is raining outside right now and can’t able to load the green bean bags onto […]
The science of what makes coffee great Michael Haft and Harrison Suarez Aug 22 2013, 12:51 PM ET Coffee has become recognized as a human necessity. It is no longer a luxury or an indulgence; it is a corollary of human energy and human efficiency. – William H. Ukers, All About Coffee (1922) It was November […]