For the majority of 2025, producers, traders and buyers of green coffee have suffered collective whiplash due to radical policy changes affecting the global coffee trade, amid enduring threats such as climate change. Much of 2025 felt like an unfortunate political detour from the real work the global coffee industry cannot keep postponing: making green coffee production more resilient and genuinely sustainable in the face of climate change and rising demand. Daily Coffee News’ 2025 Year in Review is our annual look back at the people, places and ideas that shaped coffee this year. Yet for the past six months, a Bay Area couple has been spending nights and weekends readying Futures.Coffee, a free website for quick-reference commodity coffee price info. Yet it also comes a few short years after prices were at multi-year lows, dipping below $1 per pound and threatening the livelihoods of millions of the world’s smallholder coffee farmers… read more

Source: Ethiopian News December 29, 2025 14:04 UTC