Did you know that there are various levels of nitrogen purity when it comes to nitro cold brew? Are you aware of the impact this purity can have on your beverage?
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It’s fair to say that farming communities face even greater challenges now than they did 15 years ago.
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The SCA's US Coffee Market Overview 2018 offers a large-scale understanding of coffee retail sales.
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La crisis de precios actual nos exige formar un entendimiento claro de los factores que determinan la rentabilidad o la sustentabilidad económica para los pequeños agricultores.
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Join the SCA, COSA, Farmer Brothers, and the Inter-American Development Bank for a webinar to share learnings from their joint undertaking to develop a landscape assessment framework for Jinotega, Nicaragua.
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Sensory Summit, a two-day conference designed to educate, inform, and inspire the specialty coffee sensory professional, will return to the purpose-built Sensory Theatre inside the Robert Mondavi Institute at the University of California Davis January 30 – February 1, 2020.
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The SCA Coffee Science Foundation (CSF), launched by the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) in April 2019, has announced that Italian coffee machine manufacturer Simonelli Group will become the first major partner of the organization, beginning a new four-year research project.
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The slate of candidates, presented last month by the Nominating Committee of the SCA Board, led by Heather Perry, has been joined by a petition candidate.
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This piece is the first of a series by KIM ELENA IONESCU exploring the systems map developed as part of the SCA’s year-long Price Crisis Response (PCR) initiative.
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By now, many readers will have heard about the coffee price crisis and the SCA’s response team, dubbed the Price Crisis Response Initiative. If you are among them, you likely understand that the price crisis is a complex issue and that there’s no easy, quick solution.
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Every year, over 30,000 coffee professionals complete an SCA education program with more enrolling each year. Meet Sum Ngai of Coffee Project NY.
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Today, traceability and sustainability play an increasingly important role in the specialty coffee industry. Businesses in the industry realize their need to become more sustainable, environmentally, socially, and economically, and are looking for ways to achieve this.
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On behalf of the SCA Board of Directors, it is my pleasure to present the slate of candidates for the 2019 SCA Board of Directors elections.
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“It’s not easy to know that you are sacrificing your income, that what you are working on is subsidizing the coffee industry.”
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It’s no secret that young people living in Marsella Risaralda have migrated to other cities in search of better opportunities – if coffee farming doesn’t provide guarantees of economic stability for small producers, coffee picking certainly won’t.
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Forces of disruption in agricultural supply chains – intensifying production demands, accelerating climate change, an urbanizing labor force – have led to marginal incomes at the production level for both farmers and farmworkers, but the latter remain largely hidden in coffee price discourse.
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SOPHIA JIYUAN ZHANG and FLORAC DE BRUYN share research findings amassed during a four-year research collaboration focused on creating a better understanding of the impact of post-harvest coffee processing on coffee quality across different geographic locations.
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VICENTE PARTIDA sat down with development economist and SCA Board Member VERA ESPINDOLA RAFAEL to learn more about the preliminary results of a forthcoming research project challenging the industry to rethink the pervasive export-oriented approach to coffee growing.
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If “sustainability” became the buzzword of specialty coffee towards the end of the twentieth century, then “resilience” is fast on its way towards earning the title in the twenty-first.
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An unrecoverable coffee addict, I’ve been traveling to Ukraine since 2009 when I moved to Kyiv for work with the European Commission.
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