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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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GRANDCRU BURUNDI COFFEE AUCTION ON 8TH DECEMBER SUPPORTS WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS

The “Grand Cru Burundi” auction ( https://grandcruburundi.com/en/), on 8th December 2022, is building on 10 years of social impact programs developed by JNP Coffee, a woman-owned business founded in 2012, based in Bujumbura, Burundi and Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Auction of highest-scoring specialty coffee celebrates 10 years of social impact for women farmers in Burundi, funding financial

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BAZZARA HONOURS MASSIMO RENDA, MAURIZIO GIULI AT TRIESTE COFFEE EXPERTS EVENT

The event “Trieste Coffee Experts – The Preview” by the Trieste-based roasting company Bazzara, was a success on 28th October as part of the TriestEspresso Expo, which took place in the Trieste Convention Centre (TCC) in Porto Vecchio. At this event, the most important representatives of the Italian coffee sector took turns throughout the afternoon

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TRIESTESPRESSO EXPO A GREAT SUCCESS FOR THE EVENT ‘TRIESTE COFFEE EXPERTS – THE PREVIEW’

The TriesteEspresso Expo, which includes the event “Trieste Coffee Experts – The Preview” hosted by Bazzara, took place on Friday 28 October 2022 at the Trieste Convention Centre (TCC) in Porto Vecchio. At the preview of the Bazzara event, which took place from 2 pm to 5 pm, the biggest names in the Italian coffee

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HAWAII GETS $1.37M FUNDING TO FIGHT COFFEE LEAF RUST

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded the Hawaii Agriculture Research Centre $1.37 million to address coffee leaf rust (CLR), U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, announced last week. The funds come from NIFA’s Specialty Crop Research Initiatives programme and will be used to restart the organisation’s coffee breeding programme

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COLOMBIA’S FNC SIGNS UP TO INTERNATIONAL COFFEE AGREEMENT

The signing by the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC) of the International Coffee Agreement must be a cause for celebration at the ICO. After a difficult year with the acrimonious withdrawal by Uganda from the agreement, this important deal with the world’s second-largest producer of Arabica shows that the organisation is still relevant. It may

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

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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