2020 Cup of Excellence Results
For 20 years, the Cup of Excellence (COE) competition has pioneered integrity and transparency in the coffee industry […]
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Entries by Riccardo
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…
Close up: Peru Cup of Excellence
The National Winners Auction from the latest Peru Cup of Excellence, where the second female in the competition’s history won, opens November 30th and closes December 14th. The National Winner lots are coffees scoring 85+ points during the International Week…
Spotlight: Sintercafé 2020
We would like to thank sincerely Mr Roberto Ianni, business developer of TradeYourCoffee for Italy, who provided this documentation. The most advantageous and best attended coffee event took place in a coffee producing nation. Each year more than 500 participants come to Sintercafé…
Mocha and Capsules, Post-Lockdown Sales Boom
Despite the closure of most retail outlets during lockdown, and the consequent drop in income, in the last few months the coffee market has seen surprising growth. In the first quarter of 2020 spending on coffee purchases increased by 10.7%, breathing new life into a stagnant market …