Coffee Farming and agriculture

This five-year Burundi Better Coffee Initiative will work across the value chain to help 60,000 coffee farming families increase their coffee incomes and climate resilience BUJUMBURA – Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and international nonprofit TechnoServe announced the launch of the Burundi Better Coffee Initiative. Working with partners including the Kahawatu Foundation, the […]

The Pulitzer Centre wrote a detailed article looking at the challenges faced by the Colombian coffee industry. Author Brett Marsh documents the life of several farm workers juxtaposed to the local youths who prefer to work as mechanics, delivery drivers or who leave for the bigger cities. Retiring workers often struggle to make ends meet,

Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Brazil, the world’s top Arabica exporter, is accumulating huge losses due to the consistently unusual weather, resulting in lower yields that threaten to prolong a global supply crunch. Drought and cold disrupted flowering last season, and severe frosts in July 2021 forced farmers to cut down coffee trees at a time

In a report by the state-run Ethiopian News Agency (ENA), researchers at Addis Ababa University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, discovered a new medicine that can treat a fungal disease that causes coffee plants to dry. The new treatment primarily prevents coffee wilt disease (CWD). The disease is known to block water from moving up

The Coffee Quality Institute (CQI) and Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG), as one of the main training sponsors and partners, piloted a new Robusta training with a workshop on NKG’s Kaweri Coffee Plantation, Uganda. The learnings from this workshop will be incorporated in new Q Processing 2 Robusta course that will offer opportunities to change the