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    Protecting Against the Unthinkable: Price insurance comes to the rescue of coffee cooperative in Mexico

    by Jorge Cuevas on August 25, 2014 at 11:32 AM

    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

    by David Piza on August 19, 2014 at 2:44 PM

    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®

    by Chris Ryan on August 6, 2014 at 10:37 AM

    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

    by David Griswold on June 26, 2014 at 4:07 PM

    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

    by David Griswold on June 25, 2014 at 3:57 PM

    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

    by Chris Ryan on June 13, 2014 at 11:17 AM

    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

    by Robbie Lane on June 5, 2014 at 3:42 PM

    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

    by Wynne McAuley on May 13, 2014 at 1:45 PM

    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

    by Jorge Cuevas on March 26, 2014 at 11:29 AM

    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

    by Jorge Cuevas on March 3, 2014 at 11:35 AM

    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...