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[Editor’s note: This is Part 6 of an ongoing editorial series led by Verité exploring labor issues affecting the global coffee sector through its U.S. Department of Labor-funded Cooperation On Fair, Free, Equitable Employment (COFFEE Project). See more of Verité’s work on coffee here. Daily Coffee News does not engage in sponsored content of any kind and all views

Inside the Arwa Yemeni Coffee, which opened in Richardson, Texas, in Dec. 2022. All images courtesy of Arwa Yemeni Coffee. A roaster as yellow as the desert sun is turning out coffee fit for a queen inside Arwa Yemeni Coffee, a new coffee destination in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.  The Middle Eastern-inspired coffee shop and

Lucia Bawot with her new book We Belong. All images courtesy of Lucia Bawot. Colombian photographer and filmmaker Lucia Bawot has launched pre-orders of her debut book, We Belong: An Anthology of Colombian Women Coffee Farmers. Hardcover editions of We Belong are available to pre-order for $51.40 and paperbacks are priced at $38.33 until April

New research suggests that agricultural certification, such as Rainforest Alliance, is not necessarily reducing deforestation or increasing plant cover among coffee farms in Brazil. However, the same study found synergies between environmental legislation and certification, with environmental law compliance resulting in conditions that may naturally result in coffee land owners meeting Rainforest Alliance requirements. “We

Margaret Nyamumbo on the recent episode of Shark Tank. Image courtesy of Kahawa 1893. Used with permission. Kenyan coffee and the farmers who produce it received a mainstream boost last month from Kahawa 1893 founder Margaret Nyamumbo. Appearing on the ABC hit show “Shark Tank” in prime time, Nyamumbo pitched the business concept and its

Darrin Daniel speaking at the 20th Anniversary Brazil Cup of Excellence event in 2019. Daily Coffee News photo by Howard Bryman. After more than six years holding the top executive position at the sibling nonprofits Cup of Excellence (CoE) and Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE), Darrin Daniel has resigned. In a letter shared with DCN

File photo. The Coffee Science Foundation (CSF) and one of the largest beverage companies in the world, Keurig Dr Pepper, are supporting a research project designed to better understand coffee farmer income.  “Together, we will support an extensive literature review, which will endeavor to understand the impact of interventions on farmers’ incomes and whether such

Daily Coffee News Staff | March 13, 2023 The global coffee industry can expect increasing and “ongoing systemic shocks” to coffee production due to climate change, according to new research published this month in the journal PLOS Climate.  The research, which was funded by the Australia’s national Climate Service agency, says that there has been

The Fairtrade logo on some bananas. Daily Coffee News photo. Fairtrade America, the United States chapter of Fairtrade International, has hired Amanda Archila as its new executive director. Archila replaces the Washington D.C.-based nonprofit’s most recent permanent executive director, Peg Willingham, who left the agency last July and now serves as a senior manager at

[Editor’s note: This is Part 5 of an ongoing editorial series led by Verité exploring labor issues affecting the global coffee sector through its U.S. Department of Labor-funded Cooperation On Fair, Free, Equitable Employment (COFFEE Project). See more of Verité’s work on coffee here. Daily Coffee News does not engage in sponsored content of any kind and all views

Daily Coffee News Staff | March 6, 2023 Coffee in parchment. Daily Coffee News photo. Longtime green coffee trader Andres Berron has been tapped to lead the Starbucks Coffee Trading Company (SCTC), the green coffee trading arm of Starbucks Coffee. Berron was recently named managing director and vice president at Lausanne, Switzerland-based SCTC, and will

A shot from last year’s One of a Kind Guatemala auction. All images courtesy of the Alliance for Coffee Excellence. The Guatemalan national coffee association Anacafé is bringing back the One of a Kind Guatemala (OOAK) green coffee auction.  With early bird sample kit reservations already underway, this third iteration of the OOAK program will

The Ethiopia Cup of Excellence 2022 logo. After a three-year run that generated more than US$3 million in income for coffee farmers, the Ethiopia Cup of Excellence (CoE) program has been suspended for 2023.  CoE sibling nonprofit the Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE) announced the program suspension yesterday, saying the group hopes to bring back

Sucafina China representatives at the wet mill opening outside Pu’er City in Yunnan Province, China. All images courtesy of Sucafina. Swiss multinational green coffee trading company Sucafina has opened the largest wet mill for green coffee processing in Yunnan, the primary coffee-growing region in China.  Sucafina China Managing Director Carl Sara said the new mill

A sample roaster at the new 360F Specialty Coffee Roasters home base in Coral Springs, Florida. All images courtesy of 360F. One family’s complete rotation around the coffee landscape has resulted in the opening of the 360F Specialty Coffee Roasters in Coral Springs, Florida.  The young roasting company owned and operated by Marcela and Juan P.

Anacafé President José Tulio González and ProfilePrint Founder Alan Lai in Guatemala. Courtesy photo.  Singapore-based AI-driven ingredient profiling company ProfilePrint and the Guatemalan national coffee association Anacafé have signed a strategic-partnership deal.  The partnership is expected to result in the first major practical application of ProfilePrint technology in the Latin American coffee sector.  It follows

Fairtrade International has released a living-income reference price for Honduras, designed to help inform green coffee buyers of minimum prices required to allow coffee farmers and their families to afford “decent housing, nutritious food, education, health care and other essentials.” It is the fourth countrywide living-income reference price identified by the multinational nonprofit organization, following

Daily Coffee News photo by Nick Brown. The International Coffee Organization (ICO) is launching living-income benchmarking studies for four of the group’s member countries — Honduras, Rwanda, Togo and Angola — with more expected to follow. Through its Coffee Public-Private Task Force (CPPTF), the ICO says the living-income analysis will answer the question, “How much