The 2023 SCA Greece Chapter Election has started! That means that it’s time to make your voice heard by nominating and voting for the volunteer committee who will be leading the chapter's activities for the next two years.

Two New Bonavita Coffee Brewers Join the SCA Certified Home Brewer Lineup

The new SCA White Paper: The Value of Specialty Coffee Cuppers: Perspectives, Roles, and Professional Competencies describes the various roles cuppers currently hold within coffee’s value chain, the value of these roles, and the competencies required to successfully operate as a cupper in each context.

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For 2023, the Sustainability Award Business Model Category winner is Primavera Green Coffee. Primavera Green Coffee is a coffee exporter and importer specializing in excellent coffees from Guatemala, along with new coffees from other origins such as Colombia.

In the second in a series of features on sustainability frameworks and their relationship to the SCA’s sustainability agenda of equitable value distribution, SCA Sustainability Director ANDRÉS MONTENEGRO explains the concept of the circular economy through the use of a doughnut-and-coffee metaphor.

Learn all about the 2023 winner of the Sustainability Award in the Project Category, RENACER Coffee Training School by Catholic Relief Services.

Meet one of the two 2023 Sustainability Award Individual Category winners: José Rivera.

Meet one of the two 2023 Sustainability Award Individual Category winners: David Griswold.

The SCA Knowledge Development team needs input from coffee educators to help shape future education programs. Tell us your thoughts in this 5 minute survey.

El equipo de Desarrollo del Conocimiento de la SCA necesita aportes de educadores del sector café para ayudar a dar forma a futuros programas educativos. Cuéntanos tu opinión en esta encuesta de 5 minutos.

The Coffee Science Foundation (CSF) and Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), in their continuing partnership, have announced this new research project.  Together, we will support an extensive literature review, which will endeavor to understand the impact of interventions on farmers’ incomes and whether such interventions can improve the livelihoods of the millions of resource-poor around the world.

Coffee champions from Egypt, Qatar, Bolivia, and Venezuela will be joining the World Coffee Championships in Athens this year. We are so excited to be working with four new independent partners in each of these communities and we can't wait for you to meet them.⠀

We are pleased to announce that we have received sufficient nominations to fulfil five open coordinator roles to form the SCA Austra Chapter Committee for a new term.

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

The Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), in collaboration with the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA), has opened registration for the October 2023 intake of the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Coffee Excellence.

The 2023 SCA Austria Chapter Election has started! That means that it’s time to make your voice heard by nominating and voting for the volunteer committee who will be leading the chapter's activities for the next two years.

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In this series, SCA Sustainability Director, ANDRÉS MONTENEGRO, explores different sustainability frameworks in relation to the SCA’s sustainability agenda of equitable value distribution, beginning with “climate justice.”

In Autumn 2022, the Barista Guild, the Coffee Roasters Guild, and the Coffee Technicians Guild all nominated new members for their respective Leadership Councils. We’re pleased to welcome new faces to the guilds from February 2023!