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4-5 min readBrazil’s coffee politics: from Bolsonaro’s neol...
Brazil’s place in the global coffee market is often treated as apolitical. Large producers doing what large producers do and working with scale and efficiency in mind. That framing, however,...
Brazil’s coffee politics: from Bolsonaro’s neol...
Brazil’s place in the global coffee market is often treated as apolitical. Large producers doing what large producers do and working with scale and efficiency in mind. That framing, however,...
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5-6 min readIs Asia becoming the new centre of the specialt...
For much of the modern coffee trade, roles were relatively fixed. Coffee was grown in producing countries and consumed elsewhere, with most value added far from where the coffee was...
Is Asia becoming the new centre of the specialt...
For much of the modern coffee trade, roles were relatively fixed. Coffee was grown in producing countries and consumed elsewhere, with most value added far from where the coffee was...
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2-3 min readWhy the EUDR has been delayed again
Why the EUDR has been delayed again A couple of months ago, we wrote about the EU Deforestation Regulation and the risks it poses if ambition isn’t matched by practical...
Why the EUDR has been delayed again
Why the EUDR has been delayed again A couple of months ago, we wrote about the EU Deforestation Regulation and the risks it poses if ambition isn’t matched by practical...
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4 min readWhat is the best extraction system for small-ba...
Managing smoke is one of the biggest challenges for small-batch roasters. Machines like the Aillio Bullet move far more air than most people expect, and without the right setup the...
What is the best extraction system for small-ba...
Managing smoke is one of the biggest challenges for small-batch roasters. Machines like the Aillio Bullet move far more air than most people expect, and without the right setup the...
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4-5 min read
Brazil’s coffee politics: from Bolsonaro’s neol...
Brazil’s place in the global coffee market is often treated as apolitical. Large producers doing what large producers do and working with scale and efficiency in mind. That framing, however,...
Brazil’s coffee politics: from Bolsonaro’s neol...
Brazil’s place in the global coffee market is often treated as apolitical. Large producers doing what large producers do and working with scale and efficiency in mind. That framing, however,...
5-6 min read
Is Asia becoming the new centre of the specialt...
For much of the modern coffee trade, roles were relatively fixed. Coffee was grown in producing countries and consumed elsewhere, with most value added far from where the coffee was...
Is Asia becoming the new centre of the specialt...
For much of the modern coffee trade, roles were relatively fixed. Coffee was grown in producing countries and consumed elsewhere, with most value added far from where the coffee was...
2-3 min read
Why the EUDR has been delayed again
Why the EUDR has been delayed again A couple of months ago, we wrote about the EU Deforestation Regulation and the risks it poses if ambition isn’t matched by practical...
Why the EUDR has been delayed again
Why the EUDR has been delayed again A couple of months ago, we wrote about the EU Deforestation Regulation and the risks it poses if ambition isn’t matched by practical...
4 min read
What is the best extraction system for small-ba...
Managing smoke is one of the biggest challenges for small-batch roasters. Machines like the Aillio Bullet move far more air than most people expect, and without the right setup the...
What is the best extraction system for small-ba...
Managing smoke is one of the biggest challenges for small-batch roasters. Machines like the Aillio Bullet move far more air than most people expect, and without the right setup the...
5 min read
Angola, coffee, and the long shadow of extraction
Angola’s relationship with coffee is often reduced to a simple rise-and-fall story. A former giant of global production, undone by war and instability, now trying to find its way back....
Angola, coffee, and the long shadow of extraction
Angola’s relationship with coffee is often reduced to a simple rise-and-fall story. A former giant of global production, undone by war and instability, now trying to find its way back....
3-4 min read
The new CVA: who decides value in coffee?
This year’s move from the 2004 SCA cupping form to the Coffee Value Assessment (CVA) is being presented as an overdue modernisation. But it raises a deeper question that has...
The new CVA: who decides value in coffee?
This year’s move from the 2004 SCA cupping form to the Coffee Value Assessment (CVA) is being presented as an overdue modernisation. But it raises a deeper question that has...
