This week on Recap: Three coffees scored more than 90 points in the first-ever Ethiopian Cup of Excellence competition; JDE Peet’s has announced its planned initial public offering on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange; Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin will join the board of directors at Indonesia’s Kopi Kenangan; as COVID-19 continues to impact coffee harvests around the world, reports of government aid and agricultural support continue to make headlines.

This week on Recap: April 2020 saw the highest amount of interest in the search term "coffee" since 2004; coffee shops and roasters face difficult decisions without access to rent relief; as hospitality demand for specialty coffee continues to fall, its future is called into question; an unmanned café design announced in January may offer a blueprint for socially-distant café operations.

This week on Recap: Root Capital releases the results of a survey examining the impact of the pandemic on rural farming communities; reports of losses in Yunnan, China foreshadow a bleak result for coffee-producing countries entering their harvest under social distancing measures; the SCA has released a summary of work for the Price Crisis Response Initiative; a national coffee campaign in Indonesia encourages domestic coffee consumption during lockdown.