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Protecting Against the Unthinkable: Price insurance comes to the rescue of coffee cooperative in Mexico
It´s a warm mid-summer day, and I’m catching up with the typical email backlog when one message’s subject line catches my eye: "Se Robarón el Camión"...
The Drought and the Market: Witnessing the cause of volatility in Brazil
The coffee market in 2014 has been rocked by volatility, soaring and plummeting seemingly at random. Among the core causes for that unpredictability...
Recovering from Drought in Minas Gerais
Oscar Gonzales, Sustainable Harvest Quality Specialist, reports on his recent trip to Relationship Coffee suppliers in Brazil.
Four takeaways from risk-management training in Peru
In keeping with the inclusive nature of the Relationship Coffee Model, Sustainable Harvest® regularly reinvests in our supply chain to ensure that...
Let's Talk Risk Management: Advanced Training
Extreme price volatility in the C-market due to dry weather in Brazil among other factors threatens the survival and success of coffee producers. In...
Protecting growers against an unpredictable market
The C-market has seen extreme volatility of late: After finishing around $1.14 per pound on Jan. 27, the Arabica price took off. The market hit its...
Let's Talk Coffee® Peru 2014, Day One
Greetings from Lima, Peru, the site of our 7th annual Let’s Talk Coffee® regional event, where Sustainable Harvest® gathers its supply chain to...
Honduras Preserves Coffee Quality in the Face of Roya
Last week my coworker, Claudia Rocio Gomez, and I set out on our annual trip to Honduras, where we met with cooperatives, evaluated their harvests,...
Unprecedented volatility rocks coffee market
Volatility in the C-market is not a new occurrence, but in recent weeks the market has seen an unprecedented upsurge in an astoundingly short time...