Weekly Coffee News: Coffee Makes TIME's Best Inventions + An Interactive Flavor Wheel
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Weekly Coffee News: Coffee Makes TIME's Best Inventions + An Interactive Flavor Wheel
"While virtually all cocoa stakeholders, including industry, seemed to be aligned on the need for coordinated action on both sustainability and improving the incomes of the weakest players in the supply chain, a political shift to the right has caused fact-free pushback against the regulatory environment, denying the fundamental truth that a resilient and sustainable supply chain is a competitive one."
"We share this award with the 11 partners around the world who make up this unprecedented collaboration network and who together produce over 40% of the world's coffee,"
World Coffee Research’s Innovea Global Coffee Breeding Network was named a TIME Best Invention for 2025, linking research institutions and governments across Asia, Africa and Latin America to accelerate genetic development of more resilient arabica and robusta varieties. Steel Oak Coffee introduced an interactive Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel that guides consumers to packaged coffees based on flavor preferences and connects to its online store. VOICE managing director Antonie Fountain launched the 2025 Cocoa Barometer, identifying sector opportunities and warning that political shifts are undermining coordinated sustainability and income-improvement actions. The International Coffee Organization released its September 2025 global monthly coffee report.
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