Industry & trade: Organizations — A–Z

Organizations (42)

• African Fine Coffees Association — The trade body for African coffee — a member-based non-profit in Kampala that runs the continent’s biggest coffee conference and the Taste of Harvest quality competition across eleven countries.
• All Japan Coffee Association — Japan’s industry-wide coffee trade body — the umbrella over the country’s roasters, importers and green traders, and the source of the national consumption and import statistics everyone quotes.
• ANACAFÉ — Guatemala’s national coffee association, created by decree in November 1960 — the body that drew the country’s eight-region origin map, runs its cupping labs and coffee school, bred Anacafe 14, and hosts Guatemala’s Cup of Excellence.
• Brazil Specialty Coffee Association — Brazil’s specialty coffee association, founded in 1991 by twelve producers and exporters — the body behind the country’s 80-point certification seals, and the association whose donated support got the Alliance for Coffee Excellence off the ground.
• Casas de la Alegría — Costa Rica’s harvest-season childcare programme for the children of coffee pickers — houses opened next to the coffee regions so migrant families can work while their children are fed, taught and kept out of the fields.
• CATIE — The Costa Rican research centre in Turrialba that keeps a living library of about 2,000 coffee plants — the collection Geisha passed through on its way to Panama, and the source of the F1 hybrids Centroamericano and Esperanza.
• Cenicafé — The research centre of Colombia’s growers’ federation, founded in 1938. It bred Castillo, Variedad Colombia, Tabi and Cenicafé 1, wrote the textbook definition of washed coffee, and built the machines that cut washing water use by 99%.
• CIFC — A small Portuguese laboratory outside Lisbon, founded in 1955, that spent seventy years cataloguing coffee leaf rust and the plants that survive it — and whose catalogue numbers are stamped on the parentage of nearly every rust-resistant coffee variety planted today.
• CIRAD — The French public agricultural research body behind coffee’s F1 hybrids — the institute that made lab-grown hybrid seedlings cheap enough to hand out by the million, and that co-bred Marsellesa, Starmaya, Centroamericano and Esperanza.
• Coffee Board of India — The Government of India body created by the Coffee Act VII of 1942 that runs Indian coffee — research, extension, quality and export promotion. It once controlled the marketing of the entire national crop through a compulsory pool, and stopped.
• Coffee for Peace — A Philippine social enterprise founded in Davao City in 2008 that buys and sells Mindanao coffee as a peacebuilding tool — it grew out of a conflict-mediation ministry, and its accounting is done in reconciliation as much as in pesos.
• Coffee Quality Institute — The nonprofit behind the Q Grader certification, the industry’s standard for trained coffee graders.
• Consejo Salvadoreño del Café — The Salvadoran state body that ran national coffee policy from 1989, took over when the old export monopoly was broken up, and has since been folded into today’s Instituto Salvadoreño del Café — though the sources disagree on whether that was a rename or a merger.
• Conservation International — The American environmental charity that co-wrote Starbucks’ coffee-buying rulebook, has worked on coffee farms since 1996, and is now steering a $120-million climate fund into smallholder coffee.
• Embrapa Café — The Brazilian federal unit that does not grow coffee, does not sell coffee and does not enter competitions — it decides which coffee research gets done. Created in 1999 to run the national coffee R&D programme and hold together a consortium of the country’s coffee institutes.
• Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority — The Ethiopian government body that regulates and promotes coffee, tea and spices — and the source of the official export numbers that put every record auction price in perspective.
• FECAFEB — Bolivia’s national federation of smallholder coffee growers who export their own coffee — founded in 1991, built on cooperatives and peasant associations in the Yungas, and the closest thing the country has to a national coffee body. It has no working website, which is most of the problem with writing about it.
• Federación Nacional de Cafeteros — The growers’ federation that has run Colombian coffee since 1927 — a private, non-profit association owned by its farmers that buys their crop every day of the year, funds the research centre, and owns the Café de Colombia and Juan Valdez names.
• Federation of Cerrado Coffee Growers — The non-profit federation of Brazilian producer associations and cooperatives that owns, polices and promotes the Cerrado Mineiro Denomination of Origin — the body that decides which Brazilian coffee is allowed to carry the region’s name.
• Fundação Procafé — The Brazilian non-profit coffee research and extension foundation in Varginha, Minas Gerais, built to keep the defunct IBC’s gene bank, laboratories and experimental farms working. Not the same body as the Salvadoran, Puerto Rican or Nicaraguan PROCAFE.
• IAPAR — The Paraná state agricultural research institute that bred IAPAR 59 and the IPR coffee cultivars, rebuilt the state’s coffee sector after the 1975 frost, and has since been merged into IDR-Paraná.
• ICAFE — Costa Rica’s national coffee institute — a public but non-state body created in 1933 that regulates the whole coffee chain, breeds varieties, and runs the country’s origin brand.
• IHCAFE — Honduras’s national coffee institute, founded in 1970 — the body that breeds the country’s rust-resistant varieties, draws its six coffee regions, trains its farmers, and runs its quality lab.
• INIFAP — Mexico’s national forestry, agriculture and livestock research institute, created in 1985. Coffee is a small corner of its work, but it is the body that bred and released Oro Azteca, Mexico’s rust-resistant Catimor.
• Instituto Agronômico de Campinas — The São Paulo state agricultural institute, founded by an emperor in 1887, whose coffee breeding programme produced Mundo Novo and Catuaí and selected Caturra — the three varieties most of Brazilian and Central American coffee is built on.
• Instituto Brasileiro do Café — The Brazilian federal coffee agency that ran the country’s national coffee policy from 1952 until it was abolished in 1990 — the body that set export policy, funded research and extension, and left its gene banks and laboratories to be rescued by others.
• Instituto Salvadoreño de Investigaciones del Café — El Salvador’s national coffee research institute, and the breeder of Pacamara. It no longer exists as an independent body, its legal history is documented only in Salvadoran decrees that are currently offline, and almost everything it is remembered for sits in a variety catalogue rather than in its own archive.
• Instituto Salvadoreño del Café — El Salvador’s current state coffee body — the successor to a tangle of earlier institutions, the seller behind the country’s Exclusive Nano Lot Auction, and the owner of the Café de El Salvador brand. Almost everything about its legal history is documented in decrees nobody outside El Salvador can read.
• International Coffee Organization — The intergovernmental body for coffee — the treaty organisation that once set world export quotas, and now counts and prices the world’s coffee.
• International Institute of Coffee Tasters — An Italian non-profit founded in 1993 to put coffee tasting — especially espresso — on a scientific footing, and the body behind the International Coffee Tasting medal competition.
• International Women’s Coffee Alliance — A global non-profit network of self-governing national chapters, founded in 2003, that works to get women in coffee-producing and coffee-drinking countries into leadership, training and buyers’ view.
• Jimma Agricultural Research Center — Ethiopia’s national coffee research centre, founded in 1967 and part of the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research. It collected the forest landraces behind the numbered varieties — 74158, 74110, 74112 — that now win Ethiopia’s Cup of Excellence.
• KALRO — Kenya’s state agricultural research body, and the home of the coffee breeding programme that produced Ruiru 11 and Batian. Its coffee arm at Ruiru was the Coffee Research Foundation until a 2013–14 government merger folded it in.
• National Coffee Association — The United States coffee industry’s trade association, founded in 1911 — it lobbies, publishes the country’s headline coffee-drinking survey, and runs the consumer site aboutcoffee.org.
• PROCAFE — Three unrelated coffee organizations share this name — a Salvadoran research foundation, a Puerto Rican growers’ nonprofit, and a Nicaraguan cooperative. This wiki’s incoming links almost all mean the Salvadoran one, which is also the only one with no website.
• SCAP — The Specialty Coffee Association of Panama, which runs the Best of Panama competition and auction.
• Scott Agricultural Laboratories — The colonial-era Kenyan research station that put the “SL” in SL28 and SL34. Its institutional chronology is now documented — a Kabete station from 1903, the Scott name from 1924, coffee research gone to Ruiru by 1949 — but its namesake and its site details still rest on single unread sources.
• Specialty Coffee Association — The global trade body for specialty coffee, behind widely used standards for cupping and scoring.
• Specialty Coffee Association of America — The American trade body founded in 1982 that wrote specialty coffee’s first standards, ran its first big trade show, and merged with its European counterpart in 2017 to become today’s Specialty Coffee Association.
• Specialty Coffee Association of Japan — Japan’s national specialty coffee body — it runs the Tokyo trade show, seven national championships, and the country’s professional coffee qualifications.
• Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association — The trade association for the world’s second-largest coffee producer, founded in Da Lat in 1990. Its export numbers are the figures the Vietnamese government and the world’s press quote — and they are almost the only thing it publishes.
• World Coffee Research — The industry-funded nonprofit that breeds new coffee varieties and keeps the variety catalogue this wiki cites on almost every plant.