Skilled farmworkers are necessary to harvest specialty coffees in most parts of the world, but they are too often undervalued and invisible to the industry.
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The 2019 SCA Board of Directors elections will open Friday, November 1, and close on Saturday, November 30, 2019.
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Did you know that there are various levels of nitrogen purity when it comes to nitro cold brew? Are you aware of the impact this purity can have on your beverage?
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It’s fair to say that farming communities face even greater challenges now than they did 15 years ago.
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As the leading producer of coffee in the world, Brazil is known for its rich ecosystems, high biodiversity, and unique microclimates.
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The SCA's US Coffee Market Overview 2018 offers a large-scale understanding of coffee retail sales.
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La crisis de precios actual nos exige formar un entendimiento claro de los factores que determinan la rentabilidad o la sustentabilidad económica para los pequeños agricultores.
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A lot has been written about the workforce -- millennials in particular -- choosing between a career and a passion. That shouldn't be the case.
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With over a decade of experience in specialty coffee, Erika Vonie believes that coffee is for everyone. Like many before her, she started as a barista, and worked her way through management, events coordination, quality control, education, green buying, and importing.
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Despite a nuanced backdrop of challenges to coffee farm labor, attracting and retaining farmworkers is crucial to the industry’s survival.
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Join the SCA, COSA, Farmer Brothers, and the Inter-American Development Bank for a webinar to share learnings from their joint undertaking to develop a landscape assessment framework for Jinotega, Nicaragua.
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Sensory Summit, a two-day conference designed to educate, inform, and inspire the specialty coffee sensory professional, will return to the purpose-built Sensory Theatre inside the Robert Mondavi Institute at the University of California Davis January 30 – February 1, 2020.
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The SCA Coffee Science Foundation (CSF), launched by the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) in April 2019, has announced that Italian coffee machine manufacturer Simonelli Group will become the first major partner of the organization, beginning a new four-year research project.
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The process for brewing coffee appears simple: One pours hot water over some coffee grounds, and then drinks the liquid that passes through a filter.
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The slate of candidates, presented last month by the Nominating Committee of the SCA Board, led by Heather Perry, has been joined by a petition candidate.
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Global Coffee Platform members and Country Platform stakeholders have united in new ways to tackle the economic viability of coffee farming at scale.
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Today, we’re very happy to present the third episode of the “The Role of Innovation and Technical Advancement,” a session recorded at Re:co Symposium this past April.
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What is cold brew? Why is it different than iced coffee? What is a nitro cold brew? Did you add any sweetener or cream to the nitro cold brew?
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This piece is the first of a series by KIM ELENA IONESCU exploring the systems map developed as part of the SCA’s year-long Price Crisis Response (PCR) initiative.
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Today, we’re very happy to present the second episode of “Growing Consumption: Letting Go of Sameness,” a session recorded at Re:co Symposium this past April.
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