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3 weeks ago | 
stir-tea-coffee.com | Diana Jendoubi
Shipping delays in Brazil’s ports cost coffee producers and exporters millions of dollars each year. In June of 2024, the Brazilian Coffee Exporters Council (Cecafé) began studying Brazil’s principal coffee exporting ports, and the results are shocking.
In April, 2025, Brazil exported 3.09 million 60kg bags of coffee.
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1 month ago | 
stir-tea-coffee.com | Diana Jendoubi
Starbucks honored Indonesia’s rich coffee heritage at the inaugural World of Coffee Asia in Jakarta this past week. Celebrating a partnership that began in 1971, Starbucks reaffirms its long-standing commitment to giving back to the country that has given it so much over the last 54 years.
The Origin That Started It All
Created in 1971, the iconic Moka-Java blend (featuring a washed coffee from the island of Java) was Starbucks’ first-ever blended coffee.
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1 month ago | 
stir-tea-coffee.com | Diana Jendoubi
Starbucks honored Indonesia’s rich coffee heritage at the inaugural World of Coffee Asia in Jakarta this past week. Celebrating a partnership that began in 1971, Starbucks reaffirms its long-standing commitment to giving back to the country that has given it so much over the last 55 years.
The Origin That Started It All
Created in 1971, the iconic Moka-Java blend (featuring a washed coffee from the island of Java) was Starbucks’ first-ever blended coffee.
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2 months ago | 
stir-tea-coffee.com | Diana Jendoubi
Two major announcements were made this past weekend at the Specialty Coffee Expo in Houston, Texas, regarding the longstanding partnership between the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) and the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI). The first heralds an evolution in coffee assessment and education, while the second celebrates the SCA’s pledge to financially support the impactful developments and advances made by the CQI.
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
stir-tea-coffee.com | Diana Jendoubi
The growing global coffee capsule market (valued at $39,524.5 million in 2024, according to Cognitive Market Research) attracts many potential newcomers. However, coffee capsule production is a complex process requiring precise roasting and grinding specifications and professional-grade machinery. Choosing the right capsule material to suit a target market’s needs and lifecycle regulations must also be considered.
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
stir-tea-coffee.com | Diana Jendoubi
As the primary driver for the destruction and erosion of natural land, agriculture is seen as biodiversity's biggest adversary. A solution to monocropping is the rise of regenerative agriculture and farming practices that restore biodiversity, combat climate change, and improve ecosystem services. However, one key element is necessary for regenerative theories to become actionable strategies that increase biodiversity in the coffee and tea industries—the collection of robust and reliable data.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
teajourney.pub | Panilkanda Tea |Diana Jendoubi
Colombo’s quiet residential neighborhoods are a world apart from its crowded main streets, full of honking tuk-tuks and spicy street food hawkers. Enchanting areas like Cinnamon Gardens feature picturesque tree-lined avenues and colonial architecture, housing boutique tea shops and hidden garden cafes serving specialty teas from the country’s finest producers. Colombo’s new generation of environmentally and socially conscious businesses emphasizes innovative teas crafted with care.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
stir-tea-coffee.com | Diana Jendoubi
As one of the most dynamic coffee sectors in the world, Vietnam understands the importance of portfolio diversification. Its players are pragmatic problem solvers whose motto is ‘anything is possible.’ Whether navigating the troubled waters of the European Union’s deforestation regulations, perfecting ‘Fine Robusta,’ or dominating the instant coffee market, Vietnam is tackling all aspects of the coffee value chain and ticking all the boxes.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
stir-tea-coffee.com | Diana Jendoubi
Tea production requires less water and produces fewer CO2 emissions than coffee. Yet, the industry has fallen far behind coffee when it comes to sustainable and regenerative farming practices. A group of passionate tea professionals led by Annabel Kalmar from Tea Rebellion is determined to help accelerate the adoption and commercial benefits of regenerative organic tea farming practices and move the tea sector closer towards net carbon and net nature positivity.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
stir-tea-coffee.com | Diana Jendoubi
There are about a billion unbanked women around the world with no access to finance. A lack of financial knowledge and access prevents women in coffee-producing countries from actively participating in the coffee value chain and inhibits them from contributing to important decisions on the farm and in the household. However, that gender gap is slowly being bridged by small groups of women banding together and exercising the power of savings and loans.
