Coffee producer organisations in Brazil and Colombia are consolidating an alliance and lobbying for significant change in the coffee industry. Producers fr ...
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The world’s leading cocoa producers, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, have reached agreement with traders, processors and manufacturers to instigate a floor price ...
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Work undertaken by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation suggests a new form of high-yielding Arabica could be suitable for cultivation in high t ...
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ISEAL, WWF and Rainforest Alliance are to launch a website that aims to provide a ‘robust repository’ of evidence of the impact and effectiveness of supply ...
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Fair Trade USA is to increase its minimum price and premium for cocoa by 20 per cent as of 1 October 2019. The decision follows a lengthy consultation and ...
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The Netherlands has passed legislation requiring companies to ensure that there is no child labour in their supply chains. In May 2019, the Dutch Senate vo ...
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Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the world-renowned professor of economics and sustainable development expert, says coffee conglomerates such as JAB and Nestlé nee ...
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After working at Barry Callebaut for 35 years, 10 years as Chief Operations Officer and member of the Executive Committee, Dirk Poelman has decided to reti ...
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Fairtrade International is calling for the coffee industry to pay a fairer price to coffee farmers, estimating that today’s global market price of around U ...
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The Global Coffee Platform has called for ‘urgent, global, collective action’ to address the price crisis threatening the lives of millions of smallholder ...
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The amount of coffee produced in compliance with voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) is increasing at a higher rate than the overall sector, with sign ...
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The National Coffee Association in the US says California is to correct confusing, contradictory advice about coffee and cancer. The NCA said it applauded ...
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New standards for sustainable cocoa have been published by the International Standards Organization. The standards aim to help cocoa farmers professionalis ...
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The next European Cocoa Forum will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, 17-20 September 2019. The European Cocoa Forum is organized every three years and gather ...
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GEA has completed a new freeze-dried instant coffee plant on a green field site in Vietnam. The facility, the opening of which is shown here, was built on ...
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Another legal dispute has arisen over a company promoting capsules that are said to be compatible with Nespresso single-serve machines. Law firm Harness, D ...
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Nespresso has launched a project to restore coffee farming in regions where it may be under threat. In the ‘Reviving Origins’ project, the company will wor ...
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A growing number of multi-stakeholder platforms have entered the agri-food sector, as Daniele Giovannucci and Louise Salinas at COSA point out. Coffee is a ...
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Single-serve coffee is a tremendous success story, with widespread adoption in Europe and the US, but a French study suggests that new modes of consumption ...