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SCA Portugal Chapter: Meet the New Coordinators

The SCA Portugal Chapter has selected four new coordinators to join the committee for a two-year term.

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SCA Romania Chapter: Meet the New Coordinators

The SCA Portugal Chapter has selected four new coordinators to join the committee for a two-year term.

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SCA Netherlands Chapter: Meet the New Coordinators

The SCA Netherlands Chapter has selected four new coordinators to join the committee for a two-year term.

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SCA Romania Chapter: Vote Now in the 2023 Election

If you are an SCA member based in Romania, cast your vote for the SCA Romania Chapter committee now.

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SCA Portugal Chapter: Vote Now in the 2023 Election

If you are an SCA member based in Portugal, cast your vote for the SCA Portugal Chapter committee now.

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The Future is Velvety Smooth: Modernizing the South Indian Filter | 2023 Re:co Fellow Feature — Raghunath Rajaram

2023 Re:co Fellow RAGHUNATH RAJARAM, co-founder of Aramse, links their work to revive and modernize the South Indian Filter to the concept of value creation, reminding us that solutions to existing or emerging problems may already exist—and that they may hold the key to keeping more value where it’s created.

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SCA Germany Chapter: Meet the New Coordinators

The SCA Germany Chapter has selected four new coordinators to join the committee for a two-year term.

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SCA UK Chapter: Meet the New Coordinators

The SCA UK Chapter has selected one new coordinator to join the committee for a two-year term.

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SCA Ukraine Chapter: Meet the New Coordinators

The SCA Ukraine Chapter has selected two new coordinators to join the committee for a two-year term.

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Gentrification, Specialty Coffee, and Third Wave Cafés in Portland, Oregon | 2023 Re:co Fellow Feature — Dennis Cote

2023 Re:co Fellow DENNIS COTE, an ALM (Master of Liberal Arts in History) graduate candidate at Harvard Extension School, shared some of their thesis work on specialty coffee and gentrification in Portland, this year’s host city, from 1995-2020.

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Green Coffee Summit Returns this December

SCA is proud to announce the third edition of Green Coffee Summit, a free-to-attend virtual event for anyone involved in the green coffee trade. Mark your calendars for December 5-6, 2023, and prepare for two days filled with insightful presentations, lectures, and panel discussions.

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The Extraordinary Extrinsic | 25, Issue 20

If you’ve been following along with the SCA’s project to evolve the 2004 cupping system into a Coffee Value Assessment, there’s a good chance you’re already aware of the importance of extrinsic, or symbolic, attributes.

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Curriculum Development at the SCA: Building a Consistent, Collaborative Process | 25, Issue 20

The Specialty Coffee Association is the world’s largest coffee membership association, with a sustainability-driven purpose deeply ingrained in its structure as a non-profit trade organization: to make coffee better.

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Supply Chain Sustainability: Shifting from “Can” to “Must” | 25, Issue 20

SARAH CHARLES, writer, Communications Officer at the International Trade Centre, and author of a recent dissertation on mandatory supply chain due diligence, outlines the history, opportunities, and challenges of regulatory sustainability approaches while offering a path forward for coffee businesses grappling with the shift from a voluntary to a regulatory approach.

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Beyond Freshness: How Packaging Color Influences Consumer Behavior | 25, Issue 20

Neuroscientist Dr. FABIANA CARVALHO shares the recent results of a Coffee Science Foundation study, supported by Savor Brands Inc., to understand how packaging color influences consumer behavior.

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Understanding Sustainability Interventions: An Assessment of Experimental Evidence in the Coffee Sector | 25, Issue 20

Economists DAVIDE DEL PRETE and ROCCO MACCHIAVELLO recently completed a literature review of sustainability interventions for the Coffee Science Foundation; here, with PETER GIULIANO, they summarize its findings.

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Words of Attraction: Can “Attractive” Linguistic Descriptions Lead to More “Attractive” Coffee for Consumers? | 25, Issue 20

Cognitive psychologist BENTE KLEIN HAZEBROEK and language professor ILJA CROIJMANS explore the role and construction of coffee’s linguistic descriptions—those flavor notes and descriptions across coffee packaging and websites!—in a consumer’s willingness to pay.

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Not Just a World of Coffee: Connecting Coffee, Wine, and Cacao | 25, Issue 20

NOA BERGER explores how the “field” of coffee was inspired by (and inspires) related industries like fine wine, cacao, and—more recently—vanilla, and queries its impacts.

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