6 STiR coffee and tea | 2022 Issue 5 (October/November)
10 IMA Launches Coffee LAB
20 Q|A: Joshua Jagelman
of Yunnan Coffee Traders
22
The Promise and Perils
of Our Coffee Future
26 Wait! It's Not Too Late for Darjeeling!
32 The Global Coffee Platform Promotes
'Collective Reporting'
36 Big in China: A $137 Billion
Coffee Market by 2025
38 Inflation Is Squeezing Coffee
40 Tea Sampling Takes a Dip
Into Digitalization
44 Malawi Coffee Coop Gets Caught
in Fairtrade Conundrum
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View of the pilot plant.
IMA Coffee
www.ima.it/coffee.
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There are more than 500 active
Q graders in China, where
appreciation of specialty coffee
follows in the hallowed steps of
tea connoisseurship.
12 Coffee Report
AI Learns to Sort Coffee
Logistics Firm Delta
Swallows Coffee Holding Co.
Colombia's Coffee Prices
Reach Record High
Coffee Farmers Face
Doubling Fertilizer Costs
14 Tea Report
The Stubbornly Stagnant
Price of Tea
Rainforest Alliance
Requires Premiums
Tea Drinkers Live a Little
Longer
Tea Foundation Aids
Ukrainian War Refugees
ON THE COVER
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