Specialty Coffee Association Podcast
Education
Last April, much of the discussion - at Expo and Re:co Symposium - was centered on the Coffee Price Crisis and the future of specialty. In a special episode to kick off the new year, we’re releasing a two-part lecture on the C market that sought to provide clarity and actionable data for the specialty industry.
Over the past few years, many began to question coffee’s ability to provide a sustainable household income to smallholder producers. Although there’s still much to learn about the full cost of producing specialty coffee around the world, a widely-acknowledged hypothetical benchmark of US$1.40 per pound demonstrates how current levels of productivity and market pressures continue to fail smallholder producers. Throughout all of 2018 and 2019, the C market, the main price discovery mechanism and clearing house for coffee, has been below this hypothetical price of US$1.40. As a result, our industry has been questioning the value and existence of the C market as well as expressing concern over the multi-dimensional costs to producers, countries, and the environment.
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Episode Table of Contents: Part 2
0:00 Introduction
1:40 Colleen Anunu introducing the panel speakers
6:15 Kim Elena Ionescu on the SCA’s response to the coffee price crisis
23:30 Juan Esteban Orduz of the Colombian Coffee Federation on the response he received when asking coffee chain actors for help addressing the coffee price crisis
32:15 Ben Zwerling Baltrushes on how Fair Trade USA is trying to address coffee price crisis
35:50 Audience questions
1:03:30 Outro
#64 | Re:co Podcast - David Browning on Using Technology to Help Smallholder Farmers (S2, Ep. 5)
#63 | Re:co Podcast - Danielle Knueppel & Enrique Magaña on Profitability from the Ground Up
#62 | Re:co Podcast - Merling Preza on the Role of Cooperatives(S2, Ep. 3)
#62 | Re:co Podcast: Merling Preza on the Role of Cooperatives (S2, Ep. 3)(Spanish)
#61 | Re:co Podcast - Panel Discussion: Alarms and Leadership Towards Change (S2, Ep. 2)
#60 | Re:co Podcast - Taya Brown on Supporting Smallholder Entry into the Specialty Market
#59 | Re:co Podcast - Dr. Janina Grabs on Overcoming the Single Exit Fallacy (S1, Ep. 4)
#58 | Re:co Podcast - Jeff Glassie on Prices and Antitrust Law: Where’s the Line? (S1, Ep. 3)
#57 | Re:co Podcast - Vanusia Nogueira on The World Coffee Producers Forum
#56 | Re:co Podcast - Ric Rhinehart on Coffee in Crisis: A Call and Response (S1, Ep. 1)
#55 | Re:co Podcast - Peter Roberts on Empowering Specialty Coffee to Look Beyond the “C”
#54 | Re:co Podcast - Hanna Neuschwander on Unlocking Coffee’s Flavor Code (S5, Ep. 1)
#53 - A Scientific Approach to Coffee Freshness | Chahan Yeretzian | Expo Lectures 2018
#52: Tracking and Tweaking Your Extraction | Dr. Marco Wellinger | Expo Lectures 2018
#51: Using Your Coffee Data as Business Intelligence to Deliver Quality, Consistency & Control
#50: Development from the Bottom-Up | Expo Lectures 2018
#49: Beyond Heirlooms & Hybrids: Breaking Down the Coffees of Ethiopia & East Africa | Expo 2018
#48: Managing Conflict and Emotional Labor | Dr. E. Michele Ramsey | Bloom Providence 2018
#47: How the Coffee Industry Can Make Successful Refugee Resettlement Possible | Expo 2018 Lectures
#46: The Potential of Controlled Fermentation Through Yeast Inoculation | Expo Lectures 2018
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