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FROM STAFF REPORTS
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Espresso Exports Undergo 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 didn’t ship 637,767 baggage of espresso as a result of logistical bottlenecks, leading to a lack of round $1.568 million USD, based on the Brazilian Espresso Exporters Council (Cecafé).
“There’s an pressing have to 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 Supply Well being Care to Girls 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 ladies in espresso communities. The group shares that $500 will convey important HPV check 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 might 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 contains dispatches from Passenger’s inexperienced shopping for workforce, highlighting their Many Palms, Lovely Hills mission, 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 consider it on their web site right here, or buy a replica to assist 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 Instances studies 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 a whole lot 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 many years.
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