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New Article: Ethics Without Economics Is Just Theatre⁣ By Nick Mabey – Co-founder, Assembly⁣ Part of a series reflecting on the state of specialty coffee for Assembly’s 10-year anniversary. Looking honestly at the last ten years, and more importantly at the work required for the next ten, @nmabeyqc shines a spotlight on the narratives surrounding coffee buying: “Specialty coffee has developed a damaging moral hierarchy: the buyer as ethical arbiter, storyteller-in-chief, and unofficial development economist.  In this narrative, fluency in the language of impact is treated as evidence of impact itself. The industry rewards those who can describe procurement convincingly, not those who can design it effectively. The problem isn’t simply bad margins or naive operators. It’s that we’ve collectively elevated a coffee buying culture that mistakes intent for outcome, and ethics for economics...” Read the full article via the link in our bio.
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New Article: Ethics Without Economics Is Just Theatre⁣  By Nick Mabey – Co-founder, Assembly⁣  Part of a series reflecting on the state of specialty coffee for Assembly’s 10-year anniversary.  Looking honestly at the last ten years, and more importantly at the work required for the next ten, @nmabeyqc shines a spotlight on the narratives surrounding coffee buying:  “Specialty coffee has developed a damaging moral hierarchy: the buyer as ethical arbiter, storyteller-in-chief, and unofficial development economist.   In this narrative, fluency in the language of impact is treated as evidence of impact itself. The industry rewards those who can describe procurement convincingly, not those who can design it effectively.  The problem isn’t simply bad margins or naive operators. It’s that we’ve collectively elevated a coffee buying culture that mistakes intent for outcome, and ethics for economics...”  Read the full article via the link in our bio.
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@mio.fazenda @lucas_louzada_pereira @assemblyroast @thecoffeesensorium @analuizapellicer @volcanocoffeeworks Sombra + 100
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@mio.fazenda @lucas_louzada_pereira @assemblyroast @thecoffeesensorium @analuizapellicer @volcanocoffeeworks Sombra + 100
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New Article: How High Prices Are Exposing the Hollow Promises of Specialty CoffeePart 2 - The Reorienting of the MovementBy Nick Mabey (@nmabeyqc) - Co-founder, Assembly.In a follow-up to his original piece, Nick delves into the specialty coffee movement’s direct trade narrative and the damage it’s caused to vital networks across the supply chain.He then unpacks the narrow, misinformed and elitist definitions of quality before proposing three solutions to rescue specialty coffee from becoming irrelevant.‘There is a fourth solution. The movement could abandon the “specialty coffee” concept altogether and let the market determine which brands resonate based on ethics, quality, and relevance…’Read the article in full via the link in our bio.
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New Article: How High Prices Are Exposing the Hollow Promises of Specialty Coffee Part 2 - The Reorienting of the Movement By Nick Mabey (@nmabeyqc ) - Co-founder, Assembly. In a follow-up to his original piece, Nick delves into the specialty coffee movement’s direct trade narrative and the damage it’s caused to vital networks across the supply chain. He then unpacks the narrow, misinformed and elitist definitions of quality before proposing three solutions to rescue specialty coffee from becoming irrelevant. ‘There is a fourth solution. The movement could abandon the “specialty coffee” concept altogether and let the market determine which brands resonate based on ethics, quality, and relevance…’ Read the article in full via the link in our bio.
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Can the supply chain keep up with the growing demand for robusta?The Vietnamese government is planning to cultivate 250,000 more hectares with robusta, with the Brazilian Coffee Board keeping tabs on this new development, unwilling to be left behind.There are strategies in place to increase resilience for arabica crops, but ultimately, the supply deficit will be filled by additional canephora plantations in lower-lying countries like Colombia, Brazil, and Honduras. Overall, it can be said that the economic and environmental upsides to increased canephora production and thus consumption represent the best climate mitigation strategy available to us.Read the full article by Nick Mabey (@nmabeyqc) in Standart Issue 36, out now.
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Can the supply chain keep up with the growing demand for robusta? The Vietnamese government is planning to cultivate 250,000 more hectares with robusta, with the Brazilian Coffee Board keeping tabs on this new development, unwilling to be left behind. There are strategies in place to increase resilience for arabica crops, but ultimately, the supply deficit will be filled by additional canephora plantations in lower-lying countries like Colombia, Brazil, and Honduras. Overall, it can be said that the economic and environmental upsides to increased canephora production and thus consumption represent the best climate mitigation strategy available to us. Read the full article by Nick Mabey (@nmabeyqc ) in Standart Issue 36, out now.
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As the world moves further into the unknown regarding climate change, the coffee industry is facing a potential catastrophe.Coffee is mostly grown in regions with a recent history of political instability, and in combination with the likely presence of large numbers of climate refugees in the near future, this instability is certain to create existential issues for the industry we love.But is there a ready solution waiting in the wings? Nick Mabey (@nmabeyqc) investigates and makes the case in the second part of his series on Coffea canephora, a.k.a. robusta, that from an agri-systems perspective, has additional unique properties that make it an economically viable crop.Read the full article in Standart Issue 36. Head to link in bio and grab your subscription.
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As the world moves further into the unknown regarding climate change, the coffee industry is facing a potential catastrophe. Coffee is mostly grown in regions with a recent history of political instability, and in combination with the likely presence of large numbers of climate refugees in the near future, this instability is certain to create existential issues for the industry we love. But is there a ready solution waiting in the wings? Nick Mabey (@nmabeyqc ) investigates and makes the case in the second part of his series on Coffea canephora, a.k.a. robusta, that from an agri-systems perspective, has additional unique properties that make it an economically viable crop. Read the full article in Standart Issue 36. Head to link in bio and grab your subscription.
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⁣⁣New Article: How High Prices Are Exposing the Hollow Promises of Specialty Coffee⁣⁣By Nick Mabey (@nmabeyqc) - Co-founder, Assembly.⁣⁣‘The low price era of 2010-2020 allowed the specialty coffee movement to emerge as a distinct segment, claiming to transcend the inequities of the global commodity market. It positioned itself as a more ethical, more sustainable, more producer-focused.⁣⁣But specialty coffee’s rise was less about transformation and more about optics. It didn’t fundamentally disrupt the global supply chain…’⁣⁣Read the article in full via the link in our stories and bio.
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⁣ ⁣ New Article: How High Prices Are Exposing the Hollow Promises of Specialty Coffee⁣ ⁣ By Nick Mabey (@nmabeyqc ) - Co-founder, Assembly.⁣ ⁣ ‘The low price era of 2010-2020 allowed the specialty coffee movement to emerge as a distinct segment, claiming to transcend the inequities of the global commodity market. It positioned itself as a more ethical, more sustainable, more producer-focused.⁣ ⁣ But specialty coffee’s rise was less about transformation and more about optics. It didn’t fundamentally disrupt the global supply chain…’⁣ ⁣ Read the article in full via the link in our stories and bio.
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Climate change will affect coffee in two main ways: It will lead to a loss of productivity and a major decline in exportable crops due to disease and pests; and, changing weather patterns such as seasonal rainfall shifts will make harvest-planning impossible and cause a scramble to find suitable and productive land.This will generate additional, knock-on harms, chief among which is deforestation. One possible solution for both issues is anathema to many specialty enthusiasts: Coffea canephora, the species of coffee also known as robusta.In the second of a series of articles on canephora, Nick Mabey (@nmabeyqc) of @assemblyroast breaks down some of the more attractive features of the species from the production & agri-systems perspective.Read it in Standart Issue 36—now shipping with Colombian Caturra beans, produced & decaffeinated by @fincanogales52 and roasted by @dittaartigianale. @LanceHedrick magnet included. Head to link in bio and get your subscription.Photo by @dubinkaitem
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Climate change will affect coffee in two main ways: It will lead to a loss of productivity and a major decline in exportable crops due to disease and pests; and, changing weather patterns such as seasonal rainfall shifts will make harvest-planning impossible and cause a scramble to find suitable and productive land. This will generate additional, knock-on harms, chief among which is deforestation. One possible solution for both issues is anathema to many specialty enthusiasts: Coffea canephora, the species of coffee also known as robusta. In the second of a series of articles on canephora, Nick Mabey (@nmabeyqc ) of @assemblyroast breaks down some of the more attractive features of the species from the production & agri-systems perspective. Read it in Standart Issue 36—now shipping with Colombian Caturra beans, produced & decaffeinated by @fincanogales52 and roasted by @dittaartigianale . @LanceHedrick magnet included. Head to link in bio and get your subscription. Photo by @dubinkaitem
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@mio.fazenda @pellicer_mio “look this!”
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🇧🇷 @mio.fazenda @pellicer_mio “look this!”
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Order @clairemabey’s (aka older sista) brilliant debut at WHSmith - preorders for October. Link in stories!
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Order @clairemabey ’s (aka older sista) brilliant debut at WHSmith - preorders for October. Link in stories!
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How do/ should coffee roasteries purchase coffee? Best price? Environmental impact? Social impact? In Exemplar Quarterly Issue 3, @nmabeyqc of @assemblyroast balances the scales.
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How do/ should coffee roasteries purchase coffee? Best price? Environmental impact? Social impact? In Exemplar Quarterly Issue 3, @nmabeyqc of @assemblyroast balances the scales.
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