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Frederick Bejo, Barista Trainer at Specialty Batch LLC, Dubai-based coffee roasters, cafe equipment suppliers, and coffee educators, will complete against 50 coffee professionals on the world stage, representing UAE at…

Brazil’s coffee crop for 2015/16 will be in line with that achieved last year, but well down from 2013, following months of drought, the National Company of Food Supply, or…

The Aini Group, a joint-venture with the US’s Starbucks Co, in Yunnan province, announced on June 2 that its Manzhongtian Coffee Farm had passed a verification check of Rainforest Alliance,…

A new report has found that over 90% of the Brazilian coffee farmers surveyed believed the UTZ program had been beneficial to them and would recommend UTZ certification to other…

In its most recent report, BMI Research, a FitchGroup company, has revised up considerably its forecast for Brazil’s coffee crop from 46.3mn bags to 49.5mn bags. This represents a 9.3…

Coffee production in marketing year (MY) 2015/16 (April/March) is forecast at 4.2 million bags, increasing over 4 percent compared to the previous year, according to the latest Gain Report issued…

Brazil requires a food safety plan from Peru before returning to normal imports. According to the National Coffee Council of Brazil, a new regulation in the neighboring country requires a…

According to the General Statistics Office (GSO), coffee exports from Vietnam will reach an estimated 100,000 tons in May, down 27.3 percent from the same month in 2014 at the…

El Nino will bring warmer temperatures in Brazil’s coffee belt. According to Brazil’s National Meteorological Institute (Inmet) the country will experience a moderate El Nino phenomenon by the end of…

A flash flood and mudslide caused by heavy rains, Colombia killed at least 58 people on Monday in the alpine town of Salgar, in Antioquia Province, western Colombia. The town…