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FROM STAFF REPORTS
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Espresso Exports Endure as Brazilian Ports Attain Breaking Level
The deterioration of Brazil’s port infrastructure has change into a big impediment for his or her espresso trade. In March 2025, Brazil did not ship 637,767 luggage of espresso attributable to logistical bottlenecks, leading to a lack of round $1.568 million USD, based on the Brazilian Espresso Exporters Council (Cecafé).
“There’s an pressing must broaden and modernize Brazil’s ports, streamline bureaucratic processes, and put money into know-how and various logistics options—such because the Northern Arc ports, that are rising as strategic routes for exporting Brazilian agricultural merchandise,” says Mario Veraldo, CEO of world logistics firm MTM Logix.
All through Could, Grounds for Well being Is Doubling Donations to Provide Well being Care to Ladies in Espresso-Rising Communities
Till June 1, in collaboration with Royal Espresso, Royal New York, Swiss Water, and Tony’s Espresso, Grounds for Well being is doubling donations to broaden life-saving well being care to girls in espresso communities. The group shares that $500 will carry crucial HPV take a look at kits to 100 feminine espresso farmers, serving to to detect cervical pre-cancer. Click on right here to study extra and donate.
Passenger Espresso Releases Their Third Annual Transparency Report, with Proceeds Going to World Espresso Analysis
Early this month, Passenger Espresso launched the third version of their yearly Transparency Report, recapping their 2024 green-coffee-buying efforts. All proceeds from gross sales of the report shall be donated to World Espresso Analysis. Along with sharing the costs paid for each pound of inexperienced espresso contracted in the newest harvest yr, and cup high quality information, the Transparency Report additionally consists of dispatches from Passenger’s inexperienced shopping for workforce, highlighting their Many Arms, Stunning Hills challenge, their new Foundational Partnership in India, an interview with Kaad Kaapi espresso farmers collective consultant Dinesh Pejathaya, and extra.
Study extra about Passenger’s 2024 Transparency Report and think about it on their web site right here, or buy a duplicate to help World Espresso Analysis right here.
ICE Targets Immigrants Engaged on Kona Espresso Farms in Hawai’i
An article by Miriam Jordan for The New York Occasions stories that the Kona espresso farms of Hawai’i’ve change into a goal for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The piece shares that Kona’s espresso trade is made up of lots of of family-owned farms, with hundreds of immigrant staff from Latin America handpicking espresso cherries within the Kona fields for the previous a number of a long time.
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