The European Commission has launched a consultation on deforestation but has dropped regulation from the discussion. In December 2018, the European Commiss ...
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Competition law is undermining UK business efforts to end poverty in some of the world’s poorest countries, according to research from the Fairtrade Founda ...
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Alliance for Coffee Excellence, the non-profit organisation which operates the Cup of Excellence, has been forced to cancel this year’s event in Nicaragua. ...
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Bühler Group, a well-known player in the market for coffee and cocoa processing technology, says all of its businesses achieved organic growth in 2018. Gro ...
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The new Executive Director of the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) says the time has come to bring about change in the cocoa sector. In his first ma ...
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Youngevity International Inc (YGYI) has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, CLR Roasters, has executed agreements with its Nicaraguan partners, H a ...
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Reports from Costa Rica say the Coffee Institute of Costa Rica (Icafé) is investigating the possible presence on farms in the country of a new race of coff ...
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Late 2018 saw Tony’s Chocolonely, retailer Albert Heijn and chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut forge a partnership that aims to end child labour and sl ...
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The Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund has made its first investment, in a number of coffee co-operatives in Peru. The LDN Fund has selected Urapi Sust ...
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World Coffee Research has launched an executive search for a new Chief Executive Officer. Dr Tim Schilling, founder and Chief Executive Officer at World Co ...
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Food and agri-business company Olam says it plans to invest US$3.5 billion to ‘enhance its leadership position’ but will de-prioritise selected businesses ...
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In its first estimate for 2019/20, the forecasting agency Conab is predicting a Brazilian coffee crop of 50.5-54.5 million bags, which is lower than figure ...
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The Global Coffee Platform (GCP) and Hivos, in its role as the SAFE Platform manager, have agreed to work together to address some of the main sustainabili ...
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On 9 January 2019, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) took a further – and potentially final – step toward exempting c ...
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Work by scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew has found that more than half of wild coffee species are at risk of extinction and that conservation m ...
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Turnover in the UK coffee shop market grew by 7.9% in 2018 but industry leaders say Brexit is adversely affecting trade and creating uncertainty. Project C ...
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As of the end of 2018, a total of 31 companies had submitted draft action plans designed to reduce deforestation to the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF). The p ...
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Evidence that chocolate and other products that contain cocoa can help to reduce high blood pressure is not strong enough to warrant an official health cla ...
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As highlighted in the January 2019 issue of C&CI, after a small surplus in the global coffee market in 2017/2018, a surplus is also expected in 2018/20 ...