Paying for Coffee: Inzá
In our previous series, Paying for Coffee: It’s Complicated, we talked about the various factors that underpin how we as a coffee sourcing company buy coffee, as well as how to…
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Part 5: Asking the Right Questions Now that we’ve unpacked context on what goes into pricing coffee, from terms and language to production and operating costs to purchasing models and…
Read MorePaying for Coffee—It’s Complicated: Part 4
Part 4: Not Just What You Pay, But How You Buy Historically, many have viewed importers as middlemen, a gateway through which coffee passes on its way from the farmer…
Read MorePaying for Coffee—It’s Complicated: Part 3
Part 3: Sustainably Meeting Costs—Why Context Matters More than Numbers Without context on cost of production and other costs throughout the supply chain, the price paid for coffee is just…
Read MorePaying for Coffee—It’s Complicated: Part 2
Part 2: Farmgate, FOB, EXW, and Beyond—Terms for Pricing and the Factors that Complicate Them When people in the coffee industry talk about green coffee pricing, they use a variety…
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