Training the sector actually asked for
The association’s own programme, plus three bundles built with the people who set the standards — SCA, CQI and the Jimma Agricultural Research Center. You choose a bundle, not a timetable.
Four ways in, depending on what you do.
Coffee Cupping, Raw Analysis & Coffee Marketing
Quality assessment through to international trade, taught at the ECA office in Addis Ababa. Two classes run in parallel; pick the one your week allows.
Quality & sensory
The calibration path — from a first cupping protocol through to Q-Grader certification, with barista skills alongside it.
Export & compliance
End-to-end export operations, and the deforestation regulation that now sits across all of it.
Agronomy & field
Soil, shade, pests and post-harvest processing — taught in partnership with the Jimma Agricultural Research Center.
Every grade the platform publishes is only worth what the person who gave it can defend. Training is not a side business here — it is how the association keeps the standard it sells to buyers real.