Tag: coffee
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¿Qué le debemos al café especial?
¿Qué significa para el café “especial” que la industria centre el lado de la demanda en sus normas?
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What do we owe specialty coffee?
What is does it mean for “specialty” coffee when the industry centers the demand-side in its standards?
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Can participative pricing work to improve coffee farmer incomes?
An experiment by Azahar Coffee in Colombia uses participative pricing choice. Can it work to provide coffee farmers with better-than-living-income?
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Climate (In)justice and the Sustainable Consumption Question of Ersatz Coffee
“Beanless coffee” is touted as the next frontier of sustainable coffee consumption; how convenient is it to forsake coffee farmers?
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Does Coffee Have to Be 80 Points for Me to Find it “Special”
An extended essay on the objective vs subjective qualifications defining “specialty coffee” and what paradigmatic rigidity implies for coffee market equity.
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Reentry, readjusting, reintegrating, reflecting back home
Three weeks after returning from Fulbright research on coffee in Colombia, I’m reflecting on being home and what’s coming next.
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Hasta la próxima, Colombia…
Having given my final presentation at Uniandes, I’ve got some goodbyes and thank yous to offer. We’ve done a lot of work over four months, yet the work is just beginning…
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48 hours of fieldwork in Pitalito
It was a quiet month, but the last fieldwork fieldtrip to Pitalito hit the ground running, giving us more insights on the c-price and the buying and selling of coffee, locally.
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55 hours of fieldwork in Neiva
Getting COVID at the end of February/beginning of March was rough for my work here, as I was supposed to get to the two-day Producer Roaster Forum in Guatemala City at the beginning of the month. Instead, I lost an opportunity to meet other folks from coffee-producing countries and be able to add their insights…
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Information Imperialism and Coffee
What does it mean to demand more information of coffee producers yet not expect to give anything of value