The following post is the first in a three-part series that looks at how the coffee industry can become more circular and direct across the supply chain.
By Dr. Terry Tudor and Dr. Nicholas Head, SusConnect Ltd
The global coffee industry is growing. However, it is important that there are measures taken to ensure that this growth is circular and that small farmers and producers benefit along the way.
via Food for Thought, by Stellar
By Scott Mark, VP Operations, Stellar
We’ve been talking about Millennials for years, and rightfully so: They are an influential subset of the population (those born between 1981 and 1996) who have significant buying power today.
However, in addition to considering the factors of today, the most successful food and beverage companies look ahead to prepare for the customers of tomorrow.
Enter: Generation Z.
The drones could read social cues and biometrics to dispatch caffeine when you need it
Because this doesn’t at all sound like the beginning of a post-apocalyptic dystopia where sentient technology withholds caffeine to control the human population, your coffee may one day be delivered by drone — before you even ask.
IBM has secured a patent for a coffee-delivering drone that reads social and biological cues to know when people will need their next caffeine pick-me-ups, reports USA Today.
Reality is starting to settle in for grocery manufactures as consumers are flocking to Amazon to purchase their groceries. According to the Food Marketing Institute, online grocery sales are predicted to reach $100 billion by 2025 — with Amazon making up a big chunk of that.
Photo credit: UC Davis Newsroom
By Angie Molina
Article & photos from our friends at Perfect Daily Grind
Lee este artículo en español Filtros Y Calidad Del Agua: Café Filtrado en El Laboratorio
What do you need to do to brew better filter coffee? That’s one of the many questions UC Davis Coffee Center is setting out to answer, through a variety of research projects. After all, there’s nothing like hard science for an answer you can trust.
Professor William Ristenpart, the center’s Director, agreed to talk me through his current work and what we can expect to see in the future, from the impact of coffee filter baskets to water quality and temperature.
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The following post is reprinted with permission from the Crowe Horwath Cybersecurity Watch Blog
By Mike Porter, Crowe Horwath
With the release in June 2017 of the newest IBM “Cost of Data Breach Study,” conducted by Ponemon Institute, the web is buzzing with discussions of what a breach costs.
As a result, now is a good time to provide a more nuanced analysis of this report through an examination of the assertions of a variety of recent breach cost reports that attempt to answer similar questions.
By William (Bill) M. Murray, CAE, CEO, National Coffee Association
Despite the fact that coffee has been part of the human experience for centuries, innovation is now a necessity for companies across all sectors of the coffee industry – more than ever before. In fact, if you search online for “innovate or die” you’ll easily return more than a half a million results.
What are the factors driving this change? How do we approach and address the challenges? How do we focus strategies and resources to adjust for success? And how can individual executives and business owners come up with new ideas?
First, here’s a snapshot of the issues:
National Coffee Association Blog 