EXCLUSIVE: Mexico Eyes Specialty Coffee As Farms Replant From Rust
North American coffee producer Mexico has been growing coffee since the 1780s but years of low prices and poor farm maintenance has taken a hard toll on output. After producing…
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SPECIAL REPORT: Are Speculators ‘Crushing’ Our Coffee Growers?
Coffee growers across the world’s producing countries are increasingly in pain over the continuing low prices, prices which for the vast majority of growers are below the cost of production….
SPECIAL REPORT: Is Fairtrade Coffee Based On An Unjust Movement That Only Serves The Rich?
Fair Trade coffee has for years been at the heart of a highly controversial debate about whether it really serves the promised purpose of bringing better living conditions to the…
An exchange for the better: Coffee on the Ethiopia Commodities Exchange (ECX)
Ethiopia’s relatively new commodity bourse, the Ethiopia Commodities Exchange, has been credited with lifting export revenue from coffee to new heights, boosting both production and profitability. A few critics remain…
GCR–Will it be a coffee deficit in 2014?
Will it be a coffee deficit in 2014? From the March 2014 issue. Poor weather is taking its toll on Brazilian crops, while positive economic sentiment is good news for…
Brazil’s Conab Says 2017-18 Coffee Harvest To Drop Up To 15% To As Low As 43.65M Bags
JAN 20 (SpillingTheBeans)–Brazil’s Crop Supply Agency Conab has pegged the new 2017-18 harvest in the world’s biggest grower and exporter to drop by as much as 15 percent to as…
In Memoriam, Frederick A. Lockwood, Former Publisher of Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, Dies at 64
We are saddened to learn that Fred Lockwood, the long-time publisher of the Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, has died at the age of 64 years. The T&CTJ was the…
Blog de Café: Mundo enfrenta terceiro déficit na produção de café, diz OIC
ENE 18 (Cafepoint)–O mundo enfrenta um terceiro déficit sucessivo na produção de café, apesar da estimativa de consumo enfrentando um declínio incomum, afirmou a Organização Internacional do Café (OIC). A…
Coffee of The Day: Boon’s “Full & Wild” Stunning Ethiopia Blend of Harar, Sidamo and Kaffa Beans
There is always something uniquely special about coffee reports, reviews or articles about coffee in and from Ethiopia, because after all, had it not been for the Ethiopians, at some…
Coffee And The Green Famine in Ethiopia, Over 10 Million People Suffer Drought Emergency
APR 3, 2016 (SpillingTheBeans)–Ethiopia, the birth place of Coffea Arabica, is suffering the worst drought in over 50 years. Relief agencies say over 10 million people currently are in need…
