Paying 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…
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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…
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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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Part 1: Paying for Coffee—It’s Complicated “How much did the producer get paid for this coffee?” This is a question we’re excited to be hearing more of. Thanks to an…
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