Continuing from our article How to Buy Coffee 101, in this article we examine how to align with your suppliers: premium payments for premium quality FINANCING Here we run into our next major challenge, which is about to be compounded by another– so we’ll assess the two together. The challenge is that most financing does […]
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The Rainforest Alliance announced that Santiago Gowland has joined the organization as Chief Executive Officer. Gowland previously served as Executive Vice President for Latin America and Global Innovation at The Nature Conservancy. Before that, he spearheaded sustainability initiatives in the private sector, including at Unilever and Nike. The Rainforest Alliance is an international non-profit working
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Two giants in the food world have joined together to build a high-tech sustainable cacao farm on the island of Seram in Indonesia.
MONDELĒZ AND OLAM FOODS JOIN FORCES TO CREATE LARGEST SUSTAINABLE COCOA FARM Read More »
How will the new army of home-coffee consumers make their brew? This is the battleground that is now being fought over. I believe capsule coffee will be one of the big winners
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In January, 2021 Olam issued a press release which recounted the work they were doing with the Rainforest Alliance in “La Frailescana” region of Chiapas in Mexico. Bartalks contacted Olam to understand more about how this sustainability framework works at a high level and how it fits in with the other initiatives at Olam.
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Care and Cargill released a report titled “A Decade of Impact in Cocoa Communities: More than Ten Years of the CARE-Cargill Partnership”.
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In 1944, Benjamin H. Kean was a 32-year-old army surgeon stationed in the Panama Canal Zone by the US army. Later he would play a disputed role in the Iran hostage crisis as physician to the exiled Shah. But in WWII he was an unknown doctor who, one quiet day decided to visit the islands of
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According to the latest annual report from coffee market research group Allegra World Coffee Portal, the global pandemic has wiped out almost a quarter of the US coffee market.
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UCC Coffee partners with IBM Blockchain powered ‘Farmer Connect’ platform designed to boost traceability, efficiency and sustainability in the coffee and cocoa sectors.
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Cocoa beans of Hainan origin have been exported to EU for the first time ever.
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