Kenya’s current lack of rainfall is causing some concern among coffee farmers, but that is something out of their control. However, the skyrocketing costs of fertiliser were supposed to be eased by generous subsidies announced in February. The government said it would create a Sh 1bn ($8.7m) fund to subsidise 40% of the fertiliser costs […]
KENYA MP’S ACCUSE GOV. OF CORRUPTION TO DIVERT FERTILISER SUBSIDY Read More »
Farmers from the beautiful islands of Hawaii, responsible for producing the famous Kona coffee, were shocked in 2020 to discover Coffee Leaf Rust on some islands. Since then, despite efforts to control it, the disease has spread. “We were in the process of preparing for CLR [coffee leaf rust], but it wasn’t the top priority,
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The Ukraine war has led to restrictions on exports of fertiliser which is set to drive up costs for both Cocoa and Coffee farmers. Given the Russian invasion, Ukraine, a major producer of agricultural products, has banned exports of fertilisers. The cabinet of ministers is introducing a zero quota for the export of mineral fertilisers,
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One of my favourite jobs, is writing about innovative companies that do good things, either at a macro level or in a community. This week, I read about Inaru, who took the well intentioned framework behind Fairtrade, and fixed it so that it worked better, in particular for smaller farmers. The company is getting attention
INARU RAISES $1.5M AND REINVENTS FAIRTRADE MODEL, TO BE FAIRER Read More »
SLAY Coffee has announced a strategic collaboration with one of the Coffee Farmer Producer Organisations (FPO). With this partnership, the coffee start-up hopes to work directly with farmers and have a direct impact on the ground level. The coffee start-up partnered with Arehalli Biccod, an FPO based out of Arehalli, Karnataka. The 300 farmers involved
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Legacy Group portfolio company, ‘The Green Coffee Company’ (GCC), has raised the required funds for its Series B funding round, which was increased by USD $3.5m to 13.2 million, due to high demand. Each funding round is labelled to indicate which round to which it belongs. Therefore, the Series B round is the company’s second
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Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) has successfully concluded the Uganda Coffee Agronomy Training (UCAT) project. The four-year program came to an end in October 2021 and reached over 22,000 smallholder families across four districts in Western Uganda (Kakumiro, Kyenjojo, Kibaale and Kagadi) with knowledge on improved coffee management. The region was selected because many of its coffee farmers had previously
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The Brazilian Cerrado is an immense savanna in the center of Brazil, stretching across multiple states. Moreover, the World Wildlife Fund declared it to be the world’s biologically richest savanna, containing 5 percent of all animals and plants on the planet. Today, the Cerrado is known for more than just its diverse biome, as its
FROM TREE TO CUP: COFFEE CULTIVATION IN THE BRAZILIAN CERRADO MINEIRO REGION Read More »
Although Central America produces 15% of the world’s arabica beans, the people involved in coffee production are not seeing a future in it. The poor financial returns, as well as the recent coffee crisis, forced hundreds of thousands to flee up north to the U.S. About 10% of the population, approximately 5 million people in
THE CENTRAL AMERICA COFFEE CRISIS DRIVING 6% OF HONDURAN MIGRATION Read More »
A city in the Yunnan Province found in the southwest of China, called Pu’er, has prospered into a global golden growing belt for Arabica coffee. It has recently been gaining global acknowledgement and is now broadly known as the “heaven of Arabica”. Pu’er only began planting coffee on a large scale in 1988, even though
YUNNAN PROVINCE IS ‘HEAVEN OF ARABICA’ AS CHINESE COFFEE GAINS TRACTION Read More »
Brazil is not the only country to suffer from unseasonal weather conditions that have wrecked coffee crops. India too has suffered; not from frost, but incessant rain. In the coffee growing region of Kodagu, the rain hasn’t stopped. November is the coffee picking season, but many farmers say they simply can’t pick the cherries in
INDIA’S COFFEE FARMERS GET AID AS HEAVY RAIN RUINS PROSPECTS Read More »
A few weeks ago, a number of coffee farmers told reporters that the weather was working in their favour and they expected high profits from a bumper harvest and high exports. Now was the time for it to come together, as the world’s biggest coffee producer, Brazil, struggled under bad weather conditions, pushing up the
KENYAN COFFEE. A MIXED BAG AT NAIROBI COFFEE EXCHANGE Read More »
