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2024 Was a Warning

The past year of climate shocks and surging coffee prices has felt portentous. Without significant investment and industry cooperation, coffee’s future seems increasingly uncertain.

The Purpose of the Coffee Industry Is What It Does

Coffee brands love to tout their ethics and human rights policies, yet the supply chain is still built on poverty. At some point, we have to judge the industry not by what it says but by its actions.

Coffee, Community, and a Year of Silence

The coffee industry loves “community”, but it doesn’t always love the solidarity that the word signifies. Nowhere is this more obvious than in its reaction—or lack thereof—to the genocide in Gaza.

2024 Was a Warning

The Purpose of the Coffee Industry Is What It Does

Coffee, Community, and a Year of Silence

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2024 Was a Warning

The Purpose of the Coffee Industry Is What It Does

Coffee, Community, and a Year of Silence

From South to North: Farmer-Owned Coffee Companies Are Challenging the Industry's Power Structures

There Is No Such Thing as an 'Unskilled’ Coffee Job

Corporate Philanthropy Will Not Save the Coffee Industry

Starbucks and the Myth of the Third Place

Please Just Let Millennials Enjoy Our Coffee

The Pesticides Underpinning Coffee’s Healthy Image

Where Are All the British Coffee Unions?

Equity Crowdfunding and the Democratisation of Coffee Investing

How Corporations and Executives Captured the Coffee Industry’s Profits