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Advertising Sponsor: This episode is brought to you by Arcadia Green Coffee , Colombian coffee exporters taking fresh green coffee from Colombia to the world - farm to roastery, direct. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arcadiagreencoffee/ WhatsApp: https://wa.me/353877871523 Episode Description This is Part 4 of a five-part series, The 2026 Ethiopian Coffee Harvest, with Matthew Thornton, foun...

Advertising Sponsor: Interested in advertising on a Map It Forward podcast? Email: support@mapitforward.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mapitforward.coffee Episode Description: This is Part 3 of a five-part series, The 2026 Ethiopian Coffee Harvest , with Matthew Thornton, founder of Arkena Coffee Market. In this episode, we examine what happens across the supply chain if the 2026 harvest...

Advertising Sponsor: This episode is brought to you by Arkena Coffee Marketplace , connecting you to the next coffee harvest in Ethiopia through direct trade. https://arkenacoffee.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arkenacoffee/ Email : hello@arkenacoffee.com Episode Description: This is Part 2 of a five-part series, The 2026 Ethiopian Coffee Harvest , with Matthew Thornton, founder of Arkena Coffee M...

Advertising Sponsor: This episode is brought to you by The Honduran Coffee Alliance , connecting Honduran coffee producers with global buyers in a fair, sustainable, and commercially viable way. WhatsApp: https://wa.me/50487350786 Email : sean@hondurancoffeealliance.com Episode Description: This is Part 1 of a five-part series, The 2026 Ethiopian Coffee Harvest , with Matthew Thornton, founder of...

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Advertising Sponsor: This episode is brought to you by Arkena Coffee Marketplace , connecting you to the next coffee harvest in Ethiopia through direct trade. https://arkenacoffee.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arkenacoffee/ Email : hello@arkenacoffee.com Episode Description: This is Part 4 of a five-part series, Coffee Farms in a Decade from Now , with Pedro Manga from Caravela Coffee. In this ep...

Advertising Sponsor: This episode is brought to you by The Honduran Coffee Alliance , connecting Honduran coffee producers with global buyers in a fair, sustainable, and commercially viable way. WhatsApp: https://wa.me/50487350786 Email : sean@hondurancoffeealliance.com Episode Description: This is Part 3 of a five-part series, Coffee Farms in a Decade from Now , with Pedro Manga from Caravela Cof...

Advertising Sponsor: Future-Proofing Your Coffee Business: Planning for 2026 and Beyond A Map It Forward live workshop for coffee businesses. https://mapitforward.coffee/workshops Episode Description: This is Part 2 of a five-part series, Coffee Farms in a Decade from Now , with Pedro Manga from Caravela Coffee. In this episode, the conversation focuses on deforestation and the European Union Defo...

Advertising sponsor: This episode is brought to you by Arcadia Green Coffee , Colombian coffee exporters taking fresh green coffee from Colombia to the world — farm to roastery, direct. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arcadiagreencoffee/ WhatsApp: https://wa.me/353877871523 Episode Description: This is Part 1 of a five-part series, Coffee Farms in a Decade from Now , with Pedro Manga from Car...

Advertising sponsor Future-Proofing Your Coffee Business: Planning for 2026 and Beyond A Map It Forward live workshop for coffee businesses. https://mapitforward.coffee/workshops *************************************** This is Part 5 of a five-part series with Augusto Amaya from Arcadia Green Coffee, exploring how green coffee sourcing is diversifying as the industry evolves. In this closing conve...

Advertising Sponsor Interested in advertising on a Map It Forward podcast? Email: support@mapitforward.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mapitforward.coffee *************************************** This is Part 4 of a five-part series with Augusto Amaya from Arcadia Green Coffee, exploring how green coffee sourcing is diversifying as the industry evolves. Augusto explains how Arcadia manages...

Advertising Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Arcadia Green Coffee , Colombian coffee exporters taking fresh green coffee from Colombia to the world — farm to roastery, direct. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arcadiagreencoffee/ WhatsApp: https://wa.me/353877871523 *************************************** This is Part 3 of a five-part series with Augusto Amaya from Arcadia Green Coffee...

Advertising Sponsor This episode is brought to you by Arkena Coffee Marketplace , connecting you to the next coffee harvest in Ethiopia through direct trade. https://arkenacoffee.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arkenacoffee/ Email: hello@arkenacoffee.com *************************************** This is Part 2 of a five-part series with Augusto Amaya from Arcadia Green Coffee, exploring how green cof...

Advertising Sponsor This episode is brought to you by The Honduran Coffee Alliance , connecting Honduran coffee producers with global buyers in a fair, sustainable, and commercially viable way. WhatsApp: https://wa.me/50487350786 Email: sean@hondurancoffeealliance.com *************************************** This is Part 1 of a five-part series with Augusto Amaya from Arcadia Green Coffee, explorin...

This is Part 5 of a five-part series with Sean Warner from the Honduran Coffee Alliance, exploring how coffee pricing is set today and how it may change in the future. In the final episode, Lee Safar and Sean Warner discuss potential alternatives to Arabica-dependent pricing, the implications of the C market disappearing, and what producer-led pricing models could look like in practice. They refle...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series with Sean Warner from the Honduran Coffee Alliance, exploring how coffee pricing is set today and how it may change in the future. In this episode, Lee Safar and Sean Warner explore direct trade as a proposed solution to pricing instability. They discuss how different trade models function, where power sits in pricing conversations, and why direct trade succeed...

This is Part 3 of a five-part series with Sean Warner from the Honduran Coffee Alliance, exploring how coffee pricing is set today and how it may change in the future. In this episode, Lee Safar and Sean Warner focus on the often-overlooked role of risk and liquidity in coffee pricing. While price receives most of the attention, this conversation highlights how payment timing and financing structu...

This is Part 2 of a five-part series with Sean Warner from the Honduran Coffee Alliance, exploring how coffee pricing is set today and how it may change in the future. In this episode, Lee Safar and Sean Warner examine why coffee pricing is inherently complicated. They discuss the limitations of using the C price as a reference, the historical volatility of coffee markets, and why countries with v...

This is Part 1 of a five-part series with Sean Warner from the Honduran Coffee Alliance, exploring how coffee pricing is set today and how it may change in the future. In this episode, Lee Safar and Sean Warner unpack how coffee is currently priced across the supply chain. They discuss the role of the C market, differences in production costs between origins, spot coffee versus future contracts, a...

This is Part 5 of a 5-part series on the coffee industry in 2026 with Felipe Croce (FAF Coffees) and Angel Barrera (Belco). The discussion critically examines the role of the Specialty Coffee Association, industry representation, corporate influence, and what meaningful preparation for 2026 may actually look like for coffee businesses. Chapters 00:00 Coffee Associations and Representation 02:54 Fu...

This is Part 4 of a 5-part series on the coffee industry in 2026 with Felipe Croce (FAF Coffees) and Angel Barrera (Belco). Lee Safar, Felipe Croce, and Angel Barrera examine how scale, capital, and consolidation are shaping the coffee industry, and what challenges small and medium businesses may face as corporate influence grows. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Company Scale 00:55 Patreon Communi...

This is Part 3 of a 5-part series on the coffee industry in 2026 with Felipe Croce (FAF Coffees) and Angel Barrera (Belco). This episode explores how the definition of “specialty” may evolve by 2026, what value means for producers, roasters, and consumers, and why clarity of values will be increasingly important for coffee businesses navigating a changing market. Chapters 00:00 Introduction: The D...

This is Part 2 of a 5-part series on the coffee industry in 2026 with Felipe Croce (FAF Coffees) and Angel Barrera (Belco). This episode focuses on geopolitical “tectonic plate” movements and what they mean for coffee businesses. The discussion covers currency volatility, the role of the US dollar, emerging alternatives such as stablecoins, and how exporters and importers may need to adapt to rema...

This is Part 1 of a 5-part series on the coffee industry in 2026 with Felipe Croce (FAF Coffees) and Angel Barrera (Belco). In this episode, Lee Safar, Felipe Croce, and Angel Barrera discuss where the global coffee industry is as we begin the year and where they believe it is heading. The conversation spans coffee production in Colombia and Brazil, climate volatility, geopolitical pressure, consu...