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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...
Sustainability at Work awards Gold Certification to Sustainable Harvest®
In 2007, the City of Portland formed the Sustainability at Work program to develop and advance green initiatives in the workplace. The program offers...
Sustainable Harvest founder finds soccer, coffee education in Brazil
For the last two weeks I’ve had the pleasure of traveling around Brazil during the World Cup, soaking up the country’s unbelievable enthusiasm for...
Summer interns join Sustainable Harvest team
This has been an exciting summer at Sustainable Harvest’s Portland headquarters, with our international contingent rooting hard in the World Cup for...
Roya, weather impacting current harvest in Chiapas
When the Coffee Leaf Rust outbreak hit at the end of 2012, the impact on Latin America was catastrophic. Central American countries were the main...
Coffee producer from Veracruz wins Cup of Excellence Mexico
Adán Altamirano Domínguez, owner of the Estribo coffee farm, won Mexico’s third-ever Cup of Excellence competition in May with a coffee scoring 91.59.
Farmers Strike Comes to an End in Colombia
The 11-day farmers strike in Colombia came to an end on Friday after negotiations between farmworker leaders and government officials. The strike...
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...
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...