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COSA and its partners share new Resilience indicators and measurements in this webinar.

COSA and the Specialty Coffee Association asked expert panelists about their approach to sustainability collaborations and what works and what does not in this 60-minute webinar.

This 60-minute webinar outlines how sustainable agriculture standards are being used worldwide to build sustainable agri-food systems that are environmentally and socially balanced.

The sustainable coffee business, which tries to pay growers a premium while helping the environment, has gone mainstream however–attracting companies and consumers.

Despite lagging economic growth, the North American organic coffee market topped $1.3 billion in 2008, making it the single most valuable organic product imported..

Despite the economic recession then, consumers seem to choose organic products especially when they perceive there is real and lasting value. Such data were exposed by coffee market analyst Daniele Giovannucci at a sampling event hosted by the Organic Coffee Collaboration, a OTA project at New York City’s Union Square Cafe.

As it profits from the global caffeine jones, many of the biggest producers continue to buy beans from growers who slash rainforests and exploit workers. With that in mind (and steaming cup in hand), I invited top coffee experts to recommend their favorite ethical brands, imposing two rules:…

As it profits from the global caffeine jones, many of the biggest producers continue to buy beans from growers who slash rainforests and exploit workers.

The Collaboration features leading firms from Vermont to California and from Florida to Canada.

Speakers from Equator Estate Coffees & Teas, Green Mountain Coffee, and S&D Coffees will discuss the increasing availability of high quality organic coffee on menus from drive-ins to fine dining establishments, while coffee sustainability expert Daniele Giovannucci will present the latest organic coffee market trends data.

The $1.4 billion organic-coffee market expanded by 4.1 percent this past year and an average 21 percent annually for the past five years, compared with estimated 1 percent growth in the “conventional coffee industry,” Giovannucci said…

The fourth Terra Madre gathering of food communities came to a close with more than 6,000 participants filling a stadium in Turin to hear a panel of distinguished speakers present the sustainability and food policies drafted during the preceding four days of meetings.

At the fifth annual coffee-tasting event hosted in New York, NY by the Organic Coffee Collaboration, a market study was released showing that organic coffee sales have taken off in recent years—big time, and in spite of the trend for coffee in general.

The price of coffee beans is at a historic high, as droughts and heavy rain in the world’s leading coffee-producing regions limit supply, while a rowing taste for coffee over tea in Asia fuels demand.

COSA’s collaboration with Mondelez, the world’s second largest coffee company, is a major contribution to building the world’s largest database of coffee farm sustainability metrics.

Learn more about how low-cost sustainability tools help companies advance their sustainability programs and better understand the return from the investment in their initiatives.

COSA and Connexus hosted a 60-minute webinar on how the development community can prepare farmers for supply chains’ increasingly sophisticated demands.

Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers invited COSA President Daniele Giovannucci to speak about the future of the coffee industry at the Let’s Talk Coffee 2016 coffee supply chain gathering in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, […]

The innovative work builds on earlier collaboration between the two organizations to design a S.M.A.R.T information architecture to better assess and increase the impact of sustainability sourcing programs on farmers and their communities.

Conservation International (CI) announced today the launch of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge  a call to action to make coffee the first sustainable agricultural product in the world – alongside a coalition of partner organizations including Starbucks, the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) and COSA.

Pierre Courtemanche, GeoTraceability CEO and Daniele Giovannucci, Co-founder and CEO, COSA are pleased to announce they have signed an Alliance Agreement enabling the organisations to work together to identify concrete opportunities to augment the value they can offer in collecting, processing and analysing data.

Daniele Giovannucci’s five key principles from the 7th Annual Symposium include common indicators that reduce confusion, standardized measures improving project design and assessment, local capacity for relevance, multi-dimensional views that […]

Jessica Mullan and Daniele Giovannucci Original publish date: June 5, 2015

Textile Exchange (TE) announces the release of The Organic Cotton Sustainability Assessment Tool (OC-SAT) – an online tool that measures the environmental, economic and social aspects of organic cotton production.

Interview with Daniele Giovannucci at the Annual Development Cooperation Conference. August 2010, Switzerland

Presentation by Daniele Giovannucci, Co-founder COSA, at the Annual Development Cooperation Conference. August 2010, Switzerland