Asia-Pacific
A Farmer's Legacy: The Rise of Yunnan Coffee
Hu XiXiang's journey from rubber and tea technician to coffee cooperative leader illustrates the perseverance and community focus driving Yunnan's coffee sector.
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- Central & North America
Rebuilding Puerto Rico's Coffee Identity from the Ground Up
A new university program aims to revive the island's coffee heritage by teaching sustainable production and connecting quality beans to markets.
- Coffee Origins
Sleeping Among the Coffee Trees: How Growers Are Turning Plantations into Inns
Coffee farmers are opening their farms to overnight guests, offering tours and lodging to educate visitors and supplement their income, though the dual role of grower and innkeeper comes with its own challenges.
- Asia-Pacific
The Local Faces Cultivating Myanmar's Specialty Coffee Sector
A look at the farmers, processors, and agronomists shaping Myanmar's coffee industry, and how development partnerships have connected them to international specialty markets.
- Prices & Trade
What Coffee Importers Need to Know About U.S. Customs Compliance
A guide to navigating trade transformation, tariff classification, and country-of-origin rules for coffee shipments into the United States.
- Roasteries
Building Coffee Culture Where the Beans Are Grown
In nations that export coffee, local roasting ventures are creating new consumer markets, adding value at origin, and giving farmers their first taste of their own crop—though equipment, staffing, and unfamiliarity with coffee present real obstacles.
- Africa
Tanzania's Coffee Renaissance: Growers Unite to Shine on the Global Stage
A group of farms in northern Tanzania is joining forces to raise the profile of the country's coffee, long eclipsed by its East African neighbors. Through shared learning and a focus on quality, they aim to put Tanzania firmly on the specialty coffee map.
- Central & North America
From Pasture to Prosperity: How Two Americans and a Mountain Community Built a Coffee Farm Together
Bill Bayer and Mike Pannell set out to plant coffee on a remote Costa Rican mountaintop. With help from residents of La Potenciana, the venture became a lesson in rural revitalization rather than a quick path to retirement.
- Africa
Mama Claude's Fields: A Portrait of Perseverance in Burundi
A coffee and tea farmer in Burundi shares her daily life, from skipping meals to picking tea with practiced skill, revealing the resilience behind every harvest.
- Coffee Competitions
Centroamericano F1 Hybrid Achieves Historic 90-Point Cup of Excellence Score in Nicaragua
A first-generation hybrid coffee variety has broken new ground by earning a 90-plus score at Nicaragua's premier quality competition, with its winning lot set for global auction.
- Africa
A Sidama Sanctuary Where Coffee History and Hospitality Meet
A visit to a family-run lodge near Yirgalem reveals bamboo huts, a wildlife preserve, and a coffee-farm heritage shaped by three generations of one family.
- Asia-Pacific
Mountain Province Coffee: A Push for Quality on the Slopes of Bontoc
A government-backed training effort in the northern Philippines aims to lift local arabica toward specialty standards, even as steep terrain and scarce resources keep most beans close to home.
- Farmers, Labor & Equity
The Ngöbe of Panama: Coffee Pickers and Landowners
Panama's Ngöbe people work as seasonal coffee harvesters while also cultivating their own land, a duality that shapes labor and community in the comarca and beyond.
- Africa
Rwanda's Coffee Comeback: Quality, Resilience, and the Road Ahead
How a small East African nation rebuilt its coffee sector after tragedy, turning challenges into specialty-grade opportunities.
- Central & North America
A Border Farm's Test: Rust, Tradition, and a Women-Led Micro-Lot
On a hillside farm split by the El Salvador–Honduras frontier, a family, a roaster, and an all-woman crew try to outlast coffee leaf rust with old techniques and new ones.
- South America
Leon Bedoya and the Daily Work of Pricing Colombian Coffee
A look at the co-op buyer who grades growers' beans, sets their payments and carries news between farms and the institutions that govern the trade.
- Central & North America
Inside the Dominican Coffee Story: Quality, Climate, and Local Roasting
A researcher shares insights from a two-week trip assessing how climate change affects coffee farming in the Dominican Republic, highlighting the role of local roasters and the challenges posed by disease and shifting weather patterns.
- Coffee Around the World
Bridging the Gap Between Coffee's Supply Chain and the Cup
A conference keynote asks how specialty coffee can turn complex origin information into something customers can actually taste—and why that matters for producers.
- Roasteries
How a Copenhagen Roaster Flipped the Direct Trade Script
A Copenhagen roastery has turned the usual certification model on its head by setting standards for buyers rather than farmers, and its founders explain how that approach shapes sourcing and café culture.
- Asia-Pacific
Sorting by Color, Raising Yunnan Coffee's Standing
A look at how a wet-mill color sorter, developed through trial and error with local partners, is helping farmers in southern Yunnan pick fully ripe cherries and lift cup quality.
