Tag Archives: Colleen Popkin

The SCAA Event: Annual Coffeelands Preview

2016-03-22 Comments Off on The SCAA Event: Annual Coffeelands Preview

In less than one month the gavel will sound to open The SCAA Event.  That means it’s time for the annual Coffeelands preview of The Event’s best “origin content.” In my 2012 SCAA preview post, I divided my picks into three “streams of enlightenment”—“downstream” presentations that push knowledge of origin toward the marketplace, “upstream” presentations […]

347. Coffee rust: On the farm

2013-04-10 Comments Off on 347. Coffee rust: On the farm

The coffee rust epidemic in Central America has been widely covered in industry and mainstream media.  But for all the ink that has been spilled on coffee rust, there has been relatively little information about its social and economic impacts at the household level on coffee growing families.  Fortunately, that information gap is beginning to […]