What the deforestation rules ask a member to hold
Geolocation for the plot, evidence the land was not cleared, and a due-diligence statement that travels with the lot. What the association already holds, and what a member still has to bring.
Read this month’s PulseWhere the harvest stands, area by area
Sidamo, Yirgacheffe, Guji, Jimma and Harrar do not run to one calendar. The seasonal outlook reads them separately, because a buyer asking for one of them is not asking about the others.
Read MarketReading price movement with members, not after them
Informing members of international price movement and policy change is one of the association's standing services. This is what that looks like month to month.
Read AssociationThe members’ forum, and what was raised
The forum runs alongside the Addis Coffee Cup. A short account of what members brought to it and what the association undertook to do next.
Read QualityCupping, and what a grade has to travel with
A grade that stays in the cupping room is a grade the buyer has to take on trust. Published with the lot, it is the thing they are paying for.
Read AssociationFifty years on from the Golden Jubilee
Founded in 1969 by Ethiopian coffee exporters. What the association set out to do then, and which parts of it are still the work.
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