https://dailycoffeenews.com/category/coffee-beans/global-issues/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Fri, 16 Aug 2024 12:51:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/08/15/prominent-coffee-groups-call-for-immediate-interventions-as-eudr-looms/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:11:24 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181817 Prominent coffee-focused nonprofits and trade organizations recently issued separate calls to European leaders to take immediate action regarding the new EU deforestation-free supply chain law (EUDR). In a public statement...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/08/15/best-of-panama-shatters-price-records-with-627-per-pound-average/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:02:01 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181833 Last week’s Best of Panama green coffee auction shattered numerous price records, including a total auction value of more than US$1.38 million and a weighted average price of $627.27 per...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/08/09/world-coffee-research-names-private-partners-for-six-year-f1-hybrid-variety-trial/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 14:56:01 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181395 The nonprofit World Coffee Research (WCR) announced the launch of a “pre-commercial trial phase” of new F1 hybrid arabica coffee varieties that have demonstrated potential for high quality, high productivity,...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/08/05/two-webinars-on-the-new-usda-organic-rules-coming-soon/ Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:16:58 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181563 Firedancer Coffee Consultants and organics certification consultancy Wolf & Associates are teaming up to launch two free webinars addressing the sweeping new USDA Organic certification rule, known as Strengthening Organic...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/30/farms-small-and-big-shine-at-15th-hawaii-statewide-cupping-competition/ Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:23:40 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181399 The Hawaii Coffee Association‘s 15th statewide cupping competition drew 51% more participation this year, resulting in a broad range of small-lot and big-lot coffees earning high quality scores. The competition...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/26/researchers-explore-high-elevation-robusta-as-arabica-replacement/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:34:00 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181352 The results of a five-year multi-location field trial in Brazil suggest that robusta grown at high elevations might be a suitable replacement for arabica, which is facing existential threats on...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/23/inside-a-new-experiment-to-find-the-climate-proof-coffee-of-the-future/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 08:30:43 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181235 This story was produced by Grist and co-published by Roast Magazine/Daily Coffee News. An international public-private partnership is supercharging coffee breeding to save your morning brew David Ngibuini is a...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/16/nestle-targets-brazil-with-new-arabica-variety-called-star-4/ Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:42:12 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181121 Multinational food giant Nestlé says it has developed a new high-yielding coffee variety called Star 4, while targeting the world’s largest coffee-producing market, Brazil. In an announcement of the launch...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/15/how-the-genome-diversity-of-major-crops-tells-the-story-of-their-evolution/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:36:09 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181000 On March 27, 2024, a study published in the scientific journal Nature announced that the sugarcane genome had at last been cracked. This was a remarkable achievement because of the complexity...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/11/study-coffee-has-high-potential-to-combine-conservation-and-production/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:49:29 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180899 As agricultural goods go, coffee has a particularly high potential to combine forest conservation, biodiversity and production output, according to a meta analysis published this spring.  A team of researchers...]]>