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After a successful trial, the nonprofit SANA has launched a project to provide integrative psychosocial teletherapy sessions, as well as education and community support, for women coffee farmers in Colombia.

Uganda has almost doubled its coffee production over the past 10 years. In May 2025, the country exported nearly 48,000 tons of coffee, compared to Ethiopia’s almost 43,500 tons, Uganda’s agriculture ministry said in…

A new resource compiles global coffee sustainability projects. Plus, a project in Colombia aims to provide mental healthcare to women coffee farmers, and Uganda overtakes Ethiopia as Africa’s largest coffee exporter. ‘New Initiative Prioritises…

The ICO's new Coffee Sustainability Support Database features 440 sustainability initiatives, more than 600 organizations, and 170-plus donors. It is all visible from a navigable world map that is filterable by country, donors, goals,…

Nuova Simonelli created a competition for technicians to demonstrate their skills and showcase the profession as a whole. 

A new report shows an impressive rise in the popularity of specialty coffee: the number of people who drank specialty coffee in the last day had increased by 84% since 2011.

Click to find out why everyone loves specialty coffee. Plus, a new coffee tech competition and groundbreaking research on coffee leaf rust.

The study found that no single variety was entirely immune to CLR—even those explicitly bred to be resistant—but several exhibited “high resistance” across different countries.

Researchers investigated how caffeine affects the brain during sleep, discovering that it impairs essential brain functions crucial for restorative sleep.

Click to find out how coffee at night keeps you spiraling. That and more — here's the news for the week of June 16th.