https://dailycoffeenews.com/category/coffee-beans/by-region-coffee-beans/africa/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:02:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/08/14/support-a-pioneering-drc-cooperative-affected-by-rebel-conflict/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:30:26 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=181806 Coffee organizations are banding together to help coffee farmers who have been internally displaced by a recent uptick in civil conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Escalating...]]> 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/2024/07/11/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...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/09/ilo-leading-10-8-million-child-labor-in-coffee-project/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 13:52:17 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180948 The number of child laborers has been rising in recent years, reaching 160 million — or one in 10 children globally — as of the latest report from the United...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/08/three-questions-with-francis-kungu-of-kenya-focused-jamii-coffee/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:03:22 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180762 Francis Kungu can recall his younger days sitting with his friends at a pub across the street from a coffee farm in rural Kenya.   “We used to swear that we’d...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/03/breeding-and-genetics-study-traces-arabica-to-prehistoric-times/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 10:56:56 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180197 Research commissioned by Nestlé suggests that the arabica coffee species was birthed 350,000-600,000 years ago through a natural mating between two different coffee species in the wild forests of what...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/07/01/tanzania-coffee-report-production-rising-as-old-farms-get-new-life/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:11:11 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180582 Green coffee production in Tanzania is expected to increase by approximately 7% in the 2024/25 market year, up to the equivalent of approximately 1.5 million bags.  The increase has been...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/06/24/uganda-coffee-report-production-trade-and-consumption-all-rising/ Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:31:28 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180581 Uganda’s coffee production and exports are expected to rise in 2024/25, thanks to favorable crop conditions, targeted interventions to combat pest and disease and the maturation of young plants. The...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/06/18/report-highlights-glaring-discrepancies-in-coffee-value-distribution/ Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:22:51 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180565   A new economic report shows that while coffee has enough value to ensure profitability for everyone in the supply chain, the current distribution of value heavily favors roasters and...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/06/12/kenya-coffee-report-production-in-decline-despite-reform-efforts/ Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:22:42 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=180434 Coffee production in Kenya is expected to decline by more than 6% in 2024/25 due to yield declines and loss of harvested area. The projected decline is due to stagnation...]]>