Call for visiting researcher on market system dynamics in the coffee and cocoa sectors in Latin America

by Erika Eliana Mosquera | Apr 16, 2020

The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT is looking for a visiting researcher who will be part of a comparative project to assess the relationship between market system dynamics and farmer outcomes in the coffee and cacao sectors in six countries in Latin...

Coffee value chain, meet the blockchain: cryptocurrency technology shows promise for the world’s favorite commodity

by Anton Eitzinger | Nov 20, 2019

Everyone in the coffee industry craves information, perhaps even more than a morning jolt of caffeine. Across Uganda – one of the world’s top ten coffee producers – scientists, producers, industry, and the government collect data on coffee production. They do this to...

Climate-smart coffee in Uganda

by Christian Bunn | May 24, 2019

Women do most of the labor on coffee farms in Uganda (Picture ©HRNS Alliance for Resilient Coffee Uganda) Cross-posted from: Medium At the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) we believe that adaptation to climate change should not be driven by a long...

Wild coffee plants, Christmas trees and chocolate’s tree are surprisingly poorly protected

by Sean Mattson | Nov 21, 2018

Urgent action is needed to protect thousands of useful wild plants, according to new research; the data strongly suggest international conservation targets for 2020 will not be met — even for ‘commonplace’ wild plants. Headlines about threatened...

Cupping Fair Trade Coffee Impact

by Natalia Gutiérrez | Feb 5, 2018

by Natalia Gutiérrez & Martha Del Río| Feb 5, 2018   After 3 years of the impact evaluation project “Measuring and assessing impacts of Fair Trade for All on farmers, farmworkers, and the overall Fair Trade market system” supported by the Ford Foundation and...