Coffee is increasingly at risk from the climate crisis, and corporate-driven incremental change won’t save it. The theory of degrowth offers hope for a better world and a fairer coffee industry.
For paid subscribers: Coffee is increasingly used to burnish the United Arab Emirates’ international image. Now it is being supercharged by merging with the popularity of the Dubai chocolate trend.
Kenya’s coffee sector is in chaos after the government shut the Nairobi Coffee Exchange and suspended all marketing and brokerage licenses.
Lavazza, a multi-billion-dollar company that benefits from the complexities and power imbalances of the global coffee supply chain, is not happy with the EU’s imminent anti-deforestation legislation because the complexities of the coffee supply chain makes traceability difficult.
It’s hard to find affordable coffee in Paris, so why not use the city council’s long-running, crowd-sourced map of establishments offering an espresso for €1.
I'm a coffee writer and creator of The Pourover. Based in Scotland, I have over a decade of experience in the specialty coffee industry. Ask me about coffeewashing. It's pronounced Fin (he/him)
