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TECHNOSERVE TO HELP 60,000 COFFEE FARMING FAMILIES INCREASE INCOME IN BURUNDI

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 …

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WORLD COFFEE RESEARCH LAUNCHES GLOBAL COFFEE BREEDING NETWORK

Leave a Comment / Coffee, Coffee Farming and agriculture, Coffee Sustainability and Deforestation / By Nick Baskett

World Coffee Research launches Innovea Global Coffee Breeding Network to accelerate climate resilience and secure long-term coffee supplies Jaco, Costa Rica, November 10, 2022 — Today, World Coffee Research announced the formation of Innovea, a global coffee breeding network. Innovea brings together collaborating countries to transform global coffee breeding and accelerate the pace of coffee …

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MEXICO AND RWANDA TAKE THE LEAD IN TRANSFORMING THEIR COFFEE DATA

Leave a Comment / Coffee, Coffee Farming and agriculture / By Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA)

A process emerges to systemically address barriers to sustainability. This week, ICO members, coffee stakeholders, and development partners meet at the annual CEO & Global Leaders Forum to review commitments and concrete actions as part of the ICO’s Roadmap toward a sustainable, transparent, and fair global coffee sector. By now, most of us have learned …

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“MAKING BETTER COFFEE.” INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR TED FISHER ON HIS NEW BOOK.

3 Comments / Coffee, Coffee Farming and agriculture, Coffee Market / By Nick Baskett

I was recently sent a review copy of a new book from the Anthropologist Ted Fisher and asked if I’d like to review it. At the time, I had 12 books stacked by my reading chair, and I might have sounded less than enthusiastic. The pdf sat on my hard drive for a couple of …

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COLOMBIA AGING WORKFORCE IN THE COFFEE SECTOR

Leave a Comment / Coffee, Coffee Farming and agriculture / By Nick Baskett

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, …

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DOES GHANA COCOA BOARD THINK NIGERIA IS IN FOR COOPERATION OR COMPETITION WITH THEIR COCOA SECTOR RENAISSANCE?

Leave a Comment / Cocoa, Coffee Farming and agriculture / By Kwame Kwateng

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE COCOA FARMERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA

Further in the conversation, I asked about their overarching goals with this revival. I wanted to understand where their focus was. Whether they were going to repeat Ghana’s mistakes of prioritising the political benefits and any benefit to the farmer to be an unintended consequence, he highlighted Increasing youth employment, the attraction of Foreign Direct …

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BLACK SOLDIER FLIES HELP CURB UGANDA FERTILISER CRISIS

Leave a Comment / Coffee Farming and agriculture / By Dhanliza Cellona

In the midst of Ugandan farmers’ struggle with the soaring prices of fertiliser as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, help comes unexpectedly in the form of a black soldier fly (BSF), an insect whose stomach enzymes turn food waste into fertiliser. Peter Wakisi, a Ugandan villager and father of four, used to worry …

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BRAZIL CONTINUES TO SUFFER FROM REDUCED COFFEE CROP

1 Comment / Coffee, Coffee Farming and agriculture / By Dhanliza Cellona

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 …

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CONFUSION AS KENYA COFFEE FAILS IMPORT TESTS IN JAPAN, BUT PASSES IN GERMANY

Leave a Comment / Coffee, Coffee Farming and agriculture, Coffee Market / By Nick Baskett

A question over whether Kenyan coffee has excessive amounts of pesticide residue has once again surfaced following a report by Japanese authorities. The authorities said that samples taken from a shipment of Kenyan coffee contained signs of chlorpyrifos — an active ingredient found in insecticides and considered harmful to humans above a specific dosage.Following this …

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NEUMANN KAFFEE GRUPPE EXPANDS ON VERIFIED SUSTAINABLE COFFEES

Leave a Comment / Coffee, Coffee Farming and agriculture, Coffee Sustainability and Deforestation / By Nick Baskett

Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) expands its range of traceable coffees that meet key sustainability criteria. The number of companies implementing the group’s supply chain program NKG Verified continues to grow. NKG Verified offers customers traceable coffees produced on farms meeting economic, social and environmental indicators. Hamburg, Germany; August, 10, 2022 NKG Verified improves transparency along the supply …

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ETHIOPIAN RESEARCHERS DISCOVER TREATMENT FOR COFFEE WILT DISEASE

Leave a Comment / Coffee, Coffee Farming and agriculture / By Dhanliza Cellona

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 …

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CQI AND NEUMANN KAFFEE GRUPPE PILOT ROBUSTA TRAINING IN UGANDA

Leave a Comment / Coffee, Coffee Farming and agriculture / By Nick Baskett

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 …

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