https://dailycoffeenews.com/category/coffee-beans/global-issues/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:43:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/29/the-biggest-green-coffee-stories-of-2023/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:43:33 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175554 Continuing our 2023 Year in Review, we now turn to the big wide world of green coffee. One of the coffee industry’s biggest stories of the year was the decision...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/13/finnish-researchers-pushing-for-cellular-agriculture-in-coffee/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:15:30 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175398 Scientists in Finland have shed new light on the process of making, roasting and analyzing lab-grown cellular coffee. Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland — a state-owned...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/05/ico-and-sca-sign-mou-in-support-of-global-coffee-industry/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:50:26 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175177 The top brass of the International Coffee Organization and the Specialty Coffee Association convened on Dec. 1 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining the organizations’ shared commitments to...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/29/al-liu-to-lead-sustainable-harvests-expansion-of-lets-talk-coffee/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:04:49 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175071 Green coffee trading company Sustainable Harvest plans to expand its progressive and influential Let’s Talk Coffee event series under the direction of longtime specialty coffee professional Al Liu. In an...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/28/nkg-enlists-satelligence-for-deforestation-monitoring/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:24:46 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175037 As the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) compliance deadline draws nearer, multinational green coffee trading company Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) is partnering with the Dutch deforestation monitoring firm Satelligence. Satelligence’s satellite-based...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/16/trader-caravela-coffee-implementing-self-management-model-called-one-caravela/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:08:12 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174863 Green coffee trading company Caravela Coffee has announced it is reshaping its management structure with the goals of improving collaboration, empowering individuals and better responding to the evolving challenges and...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/15/kyle-engelman-named-executive-director-of-nonprofit-grounds-for-health/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:02:08 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174802 The nonprofit Grounds for Health (GFH), which works to prevent cervical cancer in coffee-growing communities, has named Kyle Engelman as executive director, effective Dec. 1.  Engelman will replace outgoing executive...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/14/column-is-the-specialty-coffee-sector-falling-behind-on-the-environment/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:00:35 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174767 I have worked in the specialty coffee trade for over a decade and, like many people in the industry, I believed for much of that time that specialty coffee was...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/08/michael-sheridan-to-lead-coffee-quality-institute-as-ceo/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:39:04 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174714 The nonprofit Coffee Quality Institute has named longtime coffee sustainability and international development expert Michael Sheridan Chief Executive Officer.  Sheridan, who most recently held the title of Director of Sourcing...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/07/royal-coffee-releases-the-world-history-and-geography-of-arabica-cultivars/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:27:27 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174695 Bay Area-based coffee trading company Royal Coffee has released an engrossing historical interpretation of the coffee family tree, called the World History and Geography of Arabica Cultivars. The project includes two...]]>