Cultivando café de especialidad en tiempos de conflicto: Casos prácticos en el este de África - 25 Magazine, Issue 8

El Dr JOSEPH KING explora el papel del café de especialidad a través de dos casos prácticos en los que reinan problemas de desarrollo y conflictos, como son los de Ruanda y el Congo oriental.

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Continuing Professional Development Program

The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program will be launched for ASTs in the coming months.

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Specialty Coffee Association
Estrategias para la Diversificación de los Ingresos en las Zonas Productoras de Café—Farm Profitability & Prosperity webinar #4

Este webinario es parte de una serie sobre los desafíos que enfrentan los productores de café y la sustentabilidad del café, especialmente a la luz de la actual crisis de precios.

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#39: Coffee is a Business (Whether You Like it or Not) | Andrew Gough | SCA Lectures 2018

Owning and operating a coffee business is a sexy idea, but many operators are too bogged down working “in” their business instead of working “on” their business. In this lecture, recorded at the 2018 Specialty Coffee Expo in Seattle, Andrew Gough tells us his business story using real data and shares a simple tool for monitoring your business markers.

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Farm Profitability Q&A — Ashley Prentice

Ashley Prentice answers questions in this third installment of a four part series following a webinar on farm profitability.

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#38: Re:co Podcast - The State and Future of The Business of Coffee (S6 E3)

In this final panel of the 2018 Re:co Symposium in April, Nick Cho asks the question: how do we respond to the challenges that were identified during Re:co this year? To find some possible answers, he leads a discussion between three founders of solutions-oriented businesses (Isabella Raposeiras, Roaster, Founder, and Owner of Coffee Lab; Ian Williams, Owner of Deadstock Coffee; Pamela Chng, Founder of Bettr Barista) as they explore the approaches they’re using to push specialty coffee forward.

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The State and Future of the Business of Coffee, Part 2 | Re:co Symposium 2018

This is the third and final episode of “The State and Future of the Business of Coffee,” a session recorded at Re:co Symposium this past April. This session gathered business leaders in Specialty Coffee to discuss the ways that the specialty coffee trade has changed in the past decade, the challenges businesses face today, and how we might prepare for the future.

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Janice Anderson | The State and Future of the Business of Coffee | Re:co Symposium 2018

This is the second episode of “The State and Future of the Business of Coffee,” a session recorded at Re:co Symposium this past April. This session gathered business leaders in Specialty Coffee to discuss the ways that the specialty coffee trade has changed in the past decade, the challenges businesses face today, and how we might prepare for the future.

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#37: Re:co Podcast - Janice Anderson on The State and Future of the Business of Coffee (S6 E2)

On this episode of the Re:co Podcast, we are pleased to welcome Janice Anderson, CEO of Premium Quality Consulting, LLC. At Re:co Symposium in April, Janice shares her research into the future of specialty coffee consumption, with a particular focus on the up-and-coming Generation Z.

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Coffee Price Crisis Webinar: Spotlight on the Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide

In our first webinar in this series, Peter and Chad will present and answer questions about the Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide, a project run by researchers at Emory University that relies on an expanding group of data donors – roasters, importers, exporters, and others – who provide detailed contract data covering specialty coffee transactions from recent harvests.

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The State and Future of the Business of Coffee | Re:co Symposium 2018

This is the opening panel of the “The State and Future of the Business of Coffee”, a session at Re:co Symposium this year. This session gathered business leaders in Specialty Coffee to discuss the ways that the specialty coffee trade has changed in the past decade, the challenges businesses face today, and how we might prepare for the future.

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#36: Re:co Podcast - The State and Future of the Business of Coffee (S6 E1)

Led by Nicholas Cho, a panel of Tracy Ging, Josh Owen, Teresa von Fuchs, and Dan McCloskey took the stage to debate and discuss an important question: are we in a specialty coffee roaster bubble?

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Optimizing Your AST Calendar

We’ve put together some instructions for how ASTs can keep their calendars up to date and optimized.

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Volunteer as a CSP Station Instructor at the 2019 Specialty Coffee Expo

Here are the ASTs who will be leading CSP courses at the Specialty Coffee Expo from April 11-14 in Boston, MA, USA. If you are planning to attend the event, there are opportunities to volunteer as a station instructor.

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Farm Profitability Q&A — Ed Canty

Ed Canty answers questions in this second installment of four following up from a recent sustainability webinar series on farm profitability.

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Anukampa Freedom Gupta-Fonner | The Evolution of Innovation | Re:co Symposium 2018

This is the second episode of “Evolution of Innovation: How New Ideas Will Shape Specialty Coffee,” a session recorded at Re:co Symposium this past April. This session offered a glimpse of new ideas in coffee from some leading thinkers in specialty coffee and a discussion of how they are likely to shape the future of our industry.

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#34: Re:co Podcast - Anukampa Freedom Gupta-Fonner on the Evolution of Innovation

This is the second episode of “Evolution of Innovation: How New Ideas Will Shape Specialty Coffee,” a session recorded at Re:co Symposium this past April. This session offered a glimpse of new ideas in coffee from some leading thinkers in specialty coffee and a discussion of how they are likely to shape the future of our industry.

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The Evolution of Innovation: How New Ideas Will Shape Specialty Coffee’s Future | Re:co 2018

Led by Ever Meister, the panel took the stage at Re:co this past April to explore the relationship between specialty coffee’s drive for constant innovation and its apparent reverence for tradition. What could innovation and irreverence do for specialty?

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#33: Re:co Podcast - The Evolution of Innovation (S5 E1)

This episode features a discussion with Ever Meister, Managing Editor at Cafe Imports; Arno Holschuh, Chief Operating Officer of Bellwether Coffee Company; Umeko Motoyoshi, VP of Product at Sudden Coffee; and Jay Ruskey, Co-Founder and CEO of Frinj Coffee.

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Farm Profitability Q&A — Janina Grabs

Janina Grabs answers questions in the first installment of a Q&A series following a recent farm profitability webinar.

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