Food For Thought: Coffee

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A supply chain represents the intricate string of processes that it takes to bring a product to the consumer.

There’s a good chance your day started with a cappuccino, or a cold brew, and you aren’t alone. In fact, coffee is one of the most consumed drinks on the planet, and it’s also one of the most traded commodities.

When it comes to coffee, the possibilites are endless. Espresso, black, cappuccino, mocha, cold brewed, iced, with milk, without—there’s a flavor profile to fit virtually any taste.

Coffee has been a popular drink for centuries, yet supply chain challenges—fragmented production, commodity market instability, climate change—continue to brew.

The coffee market is a global business with many stakeholders, characterized by volatility and uncertainty. Today, one of the main challenges the coffee sector faces is profitability due to low productivity of smallholder farmers and coffee quality is under threat.