Coffee Report
Africa’s Drive to Grow Domestic Coffee Consumption
Coffee consumption in some of Africa’s key producing countries, except for Ethiopia, remains below the average 30.2% global domestic consumption rate reported in 2021 by the International Coffee Organization (ICO). Read more
Reusable Pods: Eco-Consciousness at Its Best
Perhaps no other brewing technology since the filter revolutionized the coffee market so much as single-serve pods. Read more
Angola Aims to Stay in the Coffee Game – And Maybe Even Get Ahead
Before 1975, when Angola gained its independence from Portugal, the country was ranked the third-largest producer of coffee in the world with its Coffea canephora (robusta) considered a high-quality product. Read more
Uganda Coffee Farmers Can’t BEE-lieve Their Luck
Uganda produces a staggering 282,000 tons of coffee per year. That makes this landlocked country in East Africa the eighth largest coffee-producing nation in the world. But as rosy as it sounds, it hasn’t always been a smooth ride. Read more
The Little Cheap Coffee Maker That Could
The Black+Decker 12-cup programmable coffeemaker is a US$26 machine getting lots of attention and acclaims. Read more
Success in Coffee Erasing Rwanda’s Sad History
Rwanda’s effort to turn around the economic scars inflicted on its by the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,0000 people were killed achieved tremendous success with the story getting even better when mingled with the role of coffee... Read more
ILO and IWCA Join Partnership for Women Coffee Workers
The International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Women’s Coffee Alliance (IWCA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) establishing a collaborative partnership to create a safer, more sustainable coffee supply chain... Read more
U.N. Agency Eyes Big Opportunity for Intellectual Property In Coffee
Growing use of intellectual property (IP) in the coffee industry holds the potential to become one of the most efficient ways to protect coffee as a product and ad brand value Read more
Uganda 2021-22 Crop Seen Near 6M Bags As Coffee Expansion Grows
Coffee production in East African grower Uganda in the new 2021-22 crop cycle that started on Oct. 1, will reach 5.95 million 60-kilogram bags, private and public coffee industry officials said this week. Read more
The STiR Coffee and Tea Q&A: David M. Neumann and Pablo Garcia C. of Neumann Kaffee Gruppe
The Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) is the world’s leading green coffee service group covering all aspects of coffee from cultivation and farm management, export and import operations... Read more
A Mixed Bag: USDA’s Coffee Quality/Production Country Reports
In marketing year (MY) 2021/22, Colombian coffee production will be 14.1m bags green bean equivalent (GBE), assuming excessive rains during the first quarter of the year will marginally impact the October/November harvest. Read more
COVID-19 Increases Likelihood of Coffee Rust Outbreaks
COVID-19’s socioeconomic disruptions are likely to drive the coffee industry into another severe production crisis. Read more
Will Covid-19 Cause Lasting Disruptions in the Coffee Value Chain?
A flagship report from the International Coffee Organization (ICO) says supply and demand have both become more unstable as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more
Stress And Drought Put Brazil’s Coffee Crop In Doubt
The new coffee harvest in the world’s number one grower Brazil is forecast to be sharply down from the now completed 2020-21 cycle which produced a record crop of between 63-68 million 60-kilogram bags. Read more
Startup Demetria Secures Funding For AI-Powered Coffee Quality System
Demetria, a startup that uses low-cost sensor technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and software as a service (SaaS) cloud-based computing to track coffee quality secured US$3 million from a funding Read more
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