Enlist Your Company as a SCA Coffee Value Assessment Patron

To facilitate the SCA and Coffee Science Foundation's continued research and development of the Coffee Value Assessment, the SCA is proud to launch an official Patrons Program for SCA member companies and organizations to engage with this meaningful work and support the further refinement and development of the system. For a low donation amount, a participating company or organization will receive two years continued acknowledgement of Patron status, plus a whole host of other exclusive benefits.

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Driven by the SCA’s sustainability agenda, which emphasizes equitable value distribution throughout the supply chain, the system aspires to be a powerful tool to help measure and facilitate value assessment and distribution. It simultaneously integrates advances in sensory and coffee science, making it compatible with scientific research for the first time, as well as learnings from a large user-perception research project conducted with the specialty coffee community.

Despite its broad reach within the coffee sector, the 2004 SCA cupping system had not been thoroughly investigated or substantially updated since its creation—and the SCA is committed to improving its tools to improve market access and equity throughout the specialty coffee supply chain. The new Coffee Value Assessment, an evolution of the 2004 SCA Cupping and Grading Protocol guided by the results of a user perception survey of 1600 cuppers worldwide, was in testing with groups of cuppers in Latin America, Europe, and the US in 2022 and 2023.