Given the current global health emergency following the COVID-19 outbreak, the 5th World Cocoa Conference has been rescheduled to take place next year on the 23 – 26 May 2021, at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center in Bali Indonesia.

For registered attendees unable to attend Expo during the new dates—including those who registered for the Portland 2020 event who had not yet requested a refund—all refunds must be requested by October 9th. Global exports fell by 3.7% to 11.06 million bags in March 2020 and shipments in the first six months of coffee year 2019/20 decreased by 3.9% to 61.96 million bags. KCMO’s Messenger Coffee & The Roasterie Merge Under New Parent Company, Coffee Consumption Linked With Longer Survival In Metastatic Colon Cancer Patients, World Coffee Research & Camber Team Up For International Coffee Day, Seattle Coffee Gear & Getchusomgear Team Up To Give Away $50,000 In Grants, NBA Star Jimmy Butler Files For Trademark Of Big Face Coffee, How Abner Roldán Of Cafe Comunión Is Handling COVID-19 In Puerto Rico, The First Kaua’i Coffee Borer Beetle Has Now Been Confirmed, Open Letters And A Secret Twitter Account Point To Conflict On The SCA Board, Glitter Cat Launches An Online DiGiTiTiON. Shri Jagadish Shettar – Honourable Minister for Large and Medium Scale Industries from the Government of Karnataka, Shri Anup Wadhawan – Commerce Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, and Shri Anil Kumar Bhandari –President of the India Coffee Trust. According to recently released data for March 2020, imports by ICO importing Members and the United States increased by 5.1% to 11.76 million bags of which 8.25 million bags originated from exporting countries. organized in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Low prices discouraged sales in March 2019, and world coffee exports amounted to 10.98 million bags, 3.8% lower than in March 2018. Exports from the world’s two largest coffee-producing regions declined in the period October 2019 to January 2020. This would result in a projected deficit of 0.63 million bags for 2019/20. Issued today, September 9th, a letter penned by SCA CEO Yannis Apostolopoulos calls the postponement of the event to the fall of 2021 the “safer, more prudent option” that “[allows] our community and participating businesses more time to recover from the pandemic.” The announcement comes exactly one week after Apostolopoulos sent a similar letter stating that World of Coffee Warsaw had been officially canceled. Soluble coffee shipments accounted for 9.1%, of the total, an increase of 1 percentage point from one year ago, while roasted coffee shipments represented just 0.5%. The decline in Arabica exports was driven largely by a fall in shipments of Other Milds and Brazilian Naturals, of 13.8% to 4.22 million bags and of 13.3% to 9.95 million bags, respectively. Impact of covid-19 on the global coffee sector: The Demand Side, Volatile coffee prices: covid-19 and market fundamentals, Impact of covid-19 on the global coffee sector: Survey of ICO exporting Members, Coffee Development Report 2019. The ICO composite indicator fell to 97.74 US cents/lb in September 2019, and it averaged 100.47 US cents/lb in coffee year 2018/19. • Exports in the first 4 months of coffee year 2019/20 (Oct/19 to Sept/20) have decreased by 5.8% to 39.53 million bags compared to 41.95 million bags in the same period in 2018/19. World's Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan Cancer Support's biggest fundraising event.

In, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. The majority of coffee continues to be exported as green coffee, accounting for 90.4% of total coffee shipped between October 2019 and June 2020. • In the twelve months ending July 2019, exports of Arabica totalled 83.32 million bags compared to 75.09 million bags last year; whereas Robusta exports amounted to 46.55 million bags compared to 43.36 million bags. The ICC meeting was scheduled to be held from 27 April to 1 May 2020 at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London. , Merlot Wine Is Delicious And Miles From “Sideways” Is Wrong, Sprudge + Seattle Coffee Gear Announce New Partnership, Jimmy Butler’s Big Face Coffee Has Competition In The Bubble, Help LaNisa Williams Bring Hustler’s Cup Coffee To LA. • Exports in the first 6 months of coffee year 2019/20 (Oct/19 to Mar/20) have decreased by 3.9% to 61.96 million bags compared to 64.5 million bags in the same period in 2018/19.

This is something no other commodity or industry has ever done: to start working together, public and private, on the same level of engagement and responsibility,” said Jose Sette, Executive Director of the ICO at the opening of the Task Force meeting. History of World Food Day.