Coffee is a subject that grows more intricate the deeper you explore it. This seems daunting at times, but the opportunity for endless learning is what draws so many of us to this field.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationApril 17, 2025Issue 23, Welcome

High Aspirations for the Coffee Sector: Updates to the Sustainability Awards | 25, Issue 23

ANDRÉS MONTENEGRO, SCA Sustainability Director, provides an update on how the Sustainability Awards are evolving.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationApril 17, 2025Issue 23, Program Spotlight

Interpreting Attention: Using Eye-Tracking Technology to Understand How Coffee Labels Influence Consumer Choice | 25, Issue 23

LUCAS TEIXEIRA shares the results of a study that used eye-tracking technology and mathematical modeling to explore how visual attention to specialty coffee labels influences consumer choices.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationApril 17, 2025Issue 23, Business

Who Knows What? Market Information Access for Small Specialty Coffee Farmers in Tolima, Colombia | 25, Issue 23

GUSTAVO PEÑA and JHON JAIRO VEGA DÍAZ share the results of a study with 52 smallholder farmers in Tolima, Colombia, exploring the challenges they encounter in accessing market information.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationApril 17, 2025Issue 23, Insight

A Ground-Up Perspective on EUDR: Its Regional Impact and Unintended Consequences | 25, Issue 23

For her Master of Science in Climate Change and Development, MARÍA PAZ LOBO spent time in the coffee region of Amazonas, Peru, researching how the EUDR has and could change farmer livelihoods. She shares key findings from her dissertation.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationApril 17, 2025Issue 23, Business

Una perspectiva de abajo hacia arriba del EUDR: su impacto regional y consecuencias no deseadas | 25, Issue 23

Para su Maestría Cambio Climático y Desarrollo, MARÍA PAZ LOBO estuvo un tiempo en el Departamento de Amazonas, Perú, investigando acerca de cómo el EUDR ya está impactando la vida de familias productores de café y potencialmente lo seguirá haciendo a futuro.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationApril 17, 2025Issue 23, Business

The Gendered Coffee Paradox: Mapping a Deeper Analysis of Gender Inequity | 25, Issue 23

Dr. ERIKA KOSS discusses her PhD research that focuses on the experiences of women coffee farmers in Kenya, and a problem she names as the Gendered Coffee Paradox.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationApril 17, 2025Issue 23, Insight

Sampling the Root: Afrofuturism, Hip-Hop Pedagogy, and Coffee’s Infinite Possibilities | 25, Issue 23

Co-founder of Cxffeeblack, BARTHOLOMEW JONES shares how we can use the method of sampling and the framework of Afrofuturism to reconnect to coffee’s Roots.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationApril 17, 2025Issue 23, Viewpoint

Exchanging Valuable Information | 25, Issue 22

As incoming editor of 25, I’ve seen my first issue as a great reminder that every conversation we have about coffee is a chance to interrogate what we think we know.

Read, 25, AnnouncementsSpecialty Coffee AssociationOctober 7, 2024Welcome, Issue 22

The Coffee Value Assessment: An Opportunity for Information Sharing | 25, Issue 22

LAUREL CARMICHAEL, SCA Publications Manager, provides an update on the CVA, with a focus on its capacity for information-sharing.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationOctober 7, 2024Program Spotlight, CVA, Coffee Value Assessment, Issue 22

Mapping the Past to Model the Future: Exploring the Potential Effects of Climate Change on Coffee Flavor in Veracruz, Mexico | 25, Issue 22

For her master's degree, environmental science researcher LORENA PIEDRA CASTILLO set out to model how climate change could affect coffee flavor, in the hope of providing coffee growers with valuable information to develop strategies to ensure the continued availability of high-quality coffee in Veracruz state, Mexico in the future.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationOctober 7, 2024Sustainability, Issue 22

The Grounds for Sharing: A Comprehensive Analysis of Value Distribution in the Coffee Industry | 25, Issue 22

Senior Program Manager for Coffee at IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, METTE-MARIE HANSEN shares key insights from the recently published report, The Grounds for Sharing. The report was commissioned by the Global Coffee Platform, IDH, and Solidaridad and traces how value for coffees sold in the German retail sector is created and distributed along supply chains.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationOctober 7, 2024Sustainability, Issue 22

Cracking Coffee Regulation: The Coffee Supply Chain Challenges with EUDR Compliance | 25, Issue 22

EILEEN GORDON-LAITY, Secretary General of the European Coffee Federation, shares what we know (and what we don’t know) about the EU Deforestation Regulation coming into effect in the future.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationOctober 7, 2024Sustainability, Issue 22

How Sweet Coffee Tastes! Towards an Understanding of Coffee Sweetness | 25, Issue 22

Researchers Dr. NANCY CORDOBA and Dr. DEVIN PETERSON, joined by PETER GIULIANO, share early results of a multi-year Coffee Science Foundation research project, undertaken at the Flavor Research and Education Center at Ohio State University, to establish foundational knowledge about the phenomenon of sweetness in coffee.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationOctober 7, 2024Issue 22, Research

Worth the Wait: How Cold Brew Differs from Chilled Hot Brew | 25, Issue 22

Director of the University of California Davis Coffee Center, Professor WILLIAM RISTENPART shares a summary of a four-year-long project on cold brew.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationOctober 7, 2024Issue 22, Research

The Roots of Robusta: Cultivating Growth for a Species Once Overlooked | 25, Issue 22

World Coffee Research’s MAEVE HOLLER and Dr. ROBERT KAWUKI write about how the organization is fast-tracking innovation for robusta to forge the future of coffee.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationOctober 7, 2024Issue 22, Insight

Cultivating Curiosity | 25, Issue 21

Despite entering my sixth year of editing 25, I’m (somehow) still astonished at the organic way the editorial team often ends up with some kind of unifying link between all the features despite our best efforts to avoid any “theming” at the start of each cycle.

Read, 25, AnnouncementsSpecialty Coffee AssociationApril 4, 2024Issue 21, Welcome

Nurturing Sustainable Coffee Excellence: The Coffee Science Foundation’s 2024-2025 Research Agenda | 25, Issue 21

MARY BASCO, SCA Research and Knowledge Development Programs Manager, outlines the Coffee Science Foundation’s 2024-2025 Research Agenda and outlines which research projects are on the horizon.

The “Other” Certified Coffee: Understanding Recent Rule Changes to the Intercontinental Exchange | 25, Issue 21

Commodity market analyst JUDY GANES explains the Intercontinental Exchange grading process and considers how recent changes to this practice, which results in exchange-certified coffee and impacts levels of “certified stock,” are likely to impact C market dynamics.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationApril 4, 2024Issue 21, Business

A Point of Tension: What We Know (and Think We Know) about Equitable Value Distribution | 25, Issue 21

SCA Sustainability Director, ANDRÉS MONTENEGRO, writes an “after action review” on the SCA’s Equitable Value Distribution Survey tool, offering insights into its process, highlighting key elements from its results, and providing early insights into how these results will impact the SCA’s Sustainable Coffee Agenda.

Read, 25Specialty Coffee AssociationApril 4, 2024Issue 21, Sustainability

#MakeCoffeeBetter