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Submissions Open for The Scientific Poster Session at The Specialty Coffee Expo 2021

The highly anticipated Scientific Poster Session is back!

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Community Impact of COVID-19: Results from the Korean- and Chinese-language Surveys

KATIE VON DER LIETH and KYONGHEE SHIN share the results of the Korean and Chinese language editions of the survey, highlighting interesting findings and making comparisons between language groups and geographies.

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Ask the Pros Episode #20: Barista to Tech - Operations

Join us live for Episode #20 on Friday, July 2 at 5pm BST.

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Voting in the 2021 SCA Canada Chapter Elections Opens June 30th

If you are an SCA member based in Canada, cast your vote for the new National Coordinator for the SCA Canada Chapter now.

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Livelihoods in Coffee Webinar Series

The Barista Guild is pleased to invite you to a four-part webinar series taking place this July on the topic of Livelihoods in Coffee.

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Announcing Green Coffee Summit

The Specialty Coffee Association has announced Green Coffee Summit, a free-to-attend virtual event and resource library dedicated to the buying and selling of green coffee, launching August 25-26, 2021.

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Ask the Pros: New Episodes Streaming June through August 2021!

Ask The Pros, formerly Ask An Expert, is back on screens with live episodes streaming June through August 2021.

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Exploring “Alternative” Brewing Methods to Drive Sweetness

FILIP BARTELAK explores the findings of Dr. MACKENZIE BATALI’s recent work on fractionation and sweetness.

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Announcing the latest Coffee Retail Summit

The Specialty Coffee Association has announced a secondCoffee Retail Summit, a free-to-attend virtual event for coffee retail businesses.

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The NCA Specialty Coffee Report, in Collaboration with the SCA, Available Now

In April we announced our exciting collaboration with the National Coffee Association (NCA) to support the NCA’s biannual National Coffee Data Trends (NCDT) report and publish a special report on data relating to specialty coffee. We’re pleased to announce that the report, Specialty Coffee Consumers & Trends, is now available for coffee professionals and businesses to read at no cost.

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Premier Training Campus Spotlight: Academy of Coffee Project NY

This week, KALEENA TEOH and CHI SUM NGAI, co-founders of Coffee Project NY, told us about the company’s Premier Training Campus located in Long Island City, NY, USA.

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Beyond Recovery | 25, Issue 14

As we trundle into 2021, this second year of pandemic, the conversation has shifted from questions of management to those of recovery.

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Hanging in the Balance: Zimbabwe's Precarious Coffee Recovery | 25, Issue 14

RAY MWAREYA and NYASHA BHOBO tell the story of Zimbabwe’s coffee collapse and recovery as the country grapples with the legacies of its colonial history.

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A Snapshot in Time: Contextualizing the Community Impact Survey | 25, Issue 14

KATIE VON DER LIETH revisits the findings of the SCA’s COVID-19 Community Impact Survey while exploring the role of “snapshot” surveys in a greater ecosystem of market data.

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Profit Sharing: Towards a Just and Stable Future for Coffee Growers | 25, Issue 14

Researchers Dr. JANINA GRABS and Dr. ELIZABETH A. BENNETT explore profit sharing with suppliers as an innovative way to secure a more just and stable future for coffee growers and, thus, the entire supply chain.

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COVID-19 Could Not Stop the Premiumization of Coffee | 25, Issue 14

Rabobank’s JIM WATSON, STACIE WAN, SUDIP SINHA, and GUILHERME MORYA share an overview of COVID-19’s impact on the global coffee market.

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The Limits of “Empowerment”: Towards Justice and Accompaniment | 25, Issue 14

ERIKA KOSS explores the nuances of the word “empowerment,” the complications of its twenty-first century usage, and why an update to our vocabulary is required.

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A Vibrant, Developing Scene: JACK MOCKFORD Explores Leicester | 25, Issue 14

Once an industrial powerhouse and exemplar of post-war urban modernism, the city of Leicester would eventually lose its place as the jewel in the crown of the United Kingdom’s East Midlands, overtaken by its aesthetically more majestic neighbor Nottingham.

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NCA and SCA Announce Market Research Collaboration

The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) and the National Coffee Association (NCA) have announced a new collaborative effort supporting the NCA’s biannual National Coffee Data Trends (NCDT) report. In addition to the biannual reports released by the NCA, this agreement between the two associations will result in the publication of a special report focusing on data related to specialty coffee — made available at no cost to all coffee professionals and businesses.

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IoT in the Café

IoT (Internet of Things) is not new, and it has been in place in residential equipment like refrigerators and TVs for some time. Manufacturers have been trying to find ways to get feedback from the equipment to improve reliability and understand how end-users interact for a long time.

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