Cup of Excellence Updates: 2021
COE keeps supporting farmers during such a challenging time
WILD KOPI LUWAK: THE FINEST COFFEE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF SUSTAINABILITY IN ITS PRODUCTION
Kopi Luwak is an Indonesian term meaning civet coffee. It refers to the specialty coffee derived from beans that are digested and excreted by the Asian palm civet – luwak in Indonesian, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus in science – which is quite numerous throughout South and Southeast Asia. […]
ICO December Report: Arabica Coffee Prices Increase
ArtOn Café is proud to publish a monthly abstract of the ICO reports. Here you can find an extract of the ICO December 2020 report […]
2020 Cup of Excellence Results
For 20 years, the Cup of Excellence (COE) competition has pioneered integrity and transparency in the coffee industry […]
Make coffee better
The Specialty Coffee Association fosters global coffee communities to support activities to make coffee a more sustainable, equitable, and thriving activity for the whole […]
Flores de Ilicínea: specialty with a sustainable heart
Lilian Trigolo and Márcia Amaral are two small coffee farmers in Brazil in the southern region of Minas Gerais called Ilicínea, who launched together a brand of specialty coffee “Flores de Ilicínea Cafés Especiais” in such a complex and challenging […]
Focus: Singapore Coffee Association
We have the pleasure of painting a picture of the Singapore Coffee Association. The Singapore Coffee Association (SCA) was established in the late 1950’s by a group of pioneering coffee traders. During the ensuing years, coffee trade developed rapidly due to the…
ICO November report: coffee prices rise on concerns over 2021 production
After falling by 8.9% in October, the monthly average of the ICO composite indicator rose by 3.6% to 109.79 US cents/lb in November. The following is an abstract of the ICO Coffee Market Report of November 2020. The ICO composite indicator rose by 3.6% to 109.70 US cents/lb as prices for all group indicators…
Hurricane Damages Coffee Lands of Honduras and Nicaragua
The estimated damage to the Nicaraguan economy is US$ 742.7 million, 6.2% of the national GDP. Hurricane Iota was the second major hurricane to hit Central America in a matter of weeks. The first was Hurricane Eta which made landfall on 3 November 2020 as a category 4 storm, causing landslides and flooding that displaced…
Brazil Cup of Excellence: young farmer wins Presidential Award
The competition was held by the Brazilian Specialty Coffee Association (BSCA), in partnership with the Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE) and the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil), received 655 samples of coffee from the 2020 harvest. Of this total, 628 were evaluated with a score higher than 86 points…