https://dailycoffeenews.com/author/jenrobertsdcn/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Wed, 08 May 2024 15:39:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/05/08/three-questions-with-firaol-ahmed-of-moii-coffee/ Wed, 08 May 2024 14:24:13 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=179586 On Friday, April 12, as thousands of coffee professionals were gathered in Chicago for the Specialty Coffee Expo, Saint Louis University junior Firaol Ahmed was lacing up his track shoes...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/04/08/startup-sprout-offers-tech-backed-climate-insurance-for-smallholder-farmers/ Mon, 08 Apr 2024 12:33:46 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=178645 Ashley King-Bischof founded a company called Sprout in 2021 with a multifaceted approach to building climate resilience for smallholder coffee farmers.  The firm offers seasonal climate insurance to farmers while...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/03/26/five-must-visit-new-coffee-shops-in-mexico-city/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:10:47 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=178492 The Mexico City coffee scene is booming, and few people have captured the sounds and sights as thoroughly as Fernanda Pérez Rosell, creator of the Here for the Coffee MX...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/01/30/new-afca-director-gilbert-gatali-on-the-20th-african-fine-coffees-conference/ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:44:24 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=177494 As the African Fine Coffees Association (AFCA) prepares for the 20th iteration of its flagship event, the African Fine Coffees Conference and Exhibition, the group is operating under new executive...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/01/29/three-questions-with-iwca-executive-director-blanca-castro/ Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:57:16 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=177363 When International Women’s Coffee Alliance (IWCA) Executive Director began her job years ago at the Guatemalan coffee association Anacafé, she knew next to nothing about coffee.  “I just pretended that...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/01/25/three-questions-with-gabriela-parfait-of-the-good-sourcing/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:13:25 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=177177 After eight years working for the French green coffee importing company Belco, Gabriela Parfait has launched a coffee-focused company called The Good Sourcing.  The new venture is intentionally small, although...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2024/01/11/swallow-promises-new-coffee-beginnings-in-alicante-spain/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:35:54 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=177007 With a calming beige color scheme, and natural light and warm sea breezes spilling through the front door, Swallow (IG) offers a Mediterranean coffee oasis in Alicante, Spain.  A quality-focused...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/12/19/the-sepia-coffee-project-offers-a-guiding-light-in-metro-detroit/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:54:04 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=175523 When Martell Mason returned to metro Detroit in 2020, he found a more hopeful place than the one he’d left 20 years earlier. Yet when he zoomed in on his...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/27/three-questions-with-rwandan-coffee-expert-laetitia-mukandahiro/ Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:08:31 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174895 In a sunny yellow room with a large coffee taster’s flavor wheel on one wall and a branded jute bag on the opposite wall, Laetitia Mukandahiro and Uzziel Habimana of...]]> https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/22/three-questions-with-aimerance-merveille-of-semilla-coffee/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:53:19 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=174654 Aimerance Merveille can recall childhood days in the Democratic Republic of Congo — wearing her favorite red floral dress, watching her brothers play soccer, daydreaming.  Yet while other children were...]]>