We’ve written quite a bit, recently, about the value of coffee.

CECILIA HAE-JIN LEE traces the history of coffee in Korea.

DEOGRACIAS KALIMA explores the complex history and state of coffee growing in Malawi.

Professor CARLOS CARPIO, PhD and KATIE VON DER LIETH share a preview of a forthcoming multidisciplinary Coffee Science Foundation research project on specialty coffee labor dynamics in El Salvador and Honduras.

Lead Author NIZAM ABDU shares the findings of a recent meta-analysis of coffee ecolabeling published in Heliyon, an all-science, open access journal.

JANICA ANDERZÉN and Professor V. ERNESTO MÉNDEZ of the Agroecology and Livelihoods Collaborative at the University of Vermont trace the efforts of a new initiative, the State of the Smallholder Coffee Farmer, and explain what’s needed to take the project beyond this first stage.

MARÍA PAZ LOBO ZELEDÓN explains how the cafecito experience is changing in the Costa Rican capital.

Your Assistance is Requested to Help Ensure the Future of Coffee. The Specialty Coffee Association community is invited to share their perspective on motivations and barriers to sustainability and research investments in this 15-minute survey.

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Learn all about the 2021 winner of the Sustainability Award in the Project Model Category: the Alto Mayo Landscape Peru REDD+ Project. The project creates incentives for the local community to conserve the forest and reduces their reliance on unsustainable farming practices.

This week, Diogo Amorim and Hugo Ferraz, trainers at abcoffee’s Premier Training Campus located in Porto, Portugal.

The votes are in! Today we’re celebrating new SCA Chapter Committees in: Portugal, Russia, UK, Germany, Ukraine, and the Netherlands!

In South Korea, November is known as the coffee season of the year, making coffee more aromatic with the autumn leaves. Every November, Cafe Show Seoul has been held for the last two decades and SCA South Korea Chapter joined this year’s Cafe Show with a variety of programs.

We’re thrilled to announce that nominations are now open for the 2022 Sustainability Awards! The deadline to submit an application is January 7, 2022. There are three categories in the 2022 Sustainability Awards: Business Model, Individual, and Project.

Once upon a time at an unnamed company in an unnamed city, a coffee company opened a new café. They had exotic tastes in espresso machines and had purchased a beautiful, completely unheard-of model directly from a boutique European manufacturer. The crate was opened with care, the machine lifted onto the counter, and the whole staff gathered around to admire it.

“Hey,” said a bright young barista. “That machine doesn’t have a UL sticker on it.”

And at that angst-filled moment, the manager of the new café suddenly got very curious about UL. Could the machine be installed? Was it legal? Was it safe? And what, just exactly, was UL?

Join the Barista Guild Leadership Council for a new instalment of Livelihoods in Coffee, an ongoing conversation within our community.

The publication of the new Coffee Sensory and Cupping Handbook by Dr. Mario R. Fernández-Alduenda, Technical Officer at the Specialty Coffee Association, and Peter Giuliano, Executive Director of the Coffee Science Foundation and Chief Research Officer of the Specialty Coffee Association is now available for print and digital purchase in the SCA Store.

In any system where steam is generated, there is always a possibility that over-pressurization can cause a catastrophic failure of the pressure vessel. This could result in destruction of property, injury, and loss of life. This is a bad day no matter how you cut it.

Learn about the good old pressure relief valve, and how it can save you and your espresso machine a whole load of bother.

Exhibitor registration is now open for the 2022 World of Coffee trade show in the United Arab Emirates from January 12-14, 2022. World of Coffee Dubai will mark the first time SCA’s premier coffee trade show expands to the Middle East. This event will run in addition to the SCA’s annual World of Coffee Warsaw trade show scheduled to take place in Poland June 23-25, 2022.

PETER GIULIANO, Chief Research Officer of the SCA and Executive Director of the Coffee Science Foundation, interviews lead author SARA YEAGER, Coffee Scientist at Toddy, about the newly published article, “Acids in coffee: A review of sensory measurements and meta-analysis of chemical composition,” authored by Sara E. Yeager, Dr. Mackenzie E. Batali, Professor Jean-Xavier Guinard, and Professor William D. Ristenpart.