Coffee economics

There are many reasons why Robusta has gained popularity in the past few years. Setting aside the fact that it...

There was a time when coffee forecasting was easy. That was when the International Coffee Organisation (ICO) was one of...

There was a time when a few key indicators controlled the direction of commodity prices. News agencies could regularly refer...

Following widespread reports of failing crops in Latin America, some producers are dismayed that ICE futures prices in New York...

Oscar L. Schaps Global Head of Soft Commodities, FCStone, LLC The coffee market during the recent past has been quite volatile,...

In the lead up to the November United States Presidential election, global headlines were regularly dominated by any news that...

When the US economic crisis hit in late 2008, many were quick to predict that coffee consumption would suffer. Four...

In 2001, Cinthia Maribel Larreatigue Herrera was living in the province of San Ignacio in northern Peru, surrounded by poverty....

By Maja Wallengren  For four years running, the world’s coffee supply-demand has been running at a deficit. Global stocks and...

Viewed from a distance – from Jupiter, say – the coffee industry of planet Earth may appear to be a...