Who Will Fund the Future of Coffee?
For paid subscribers: some thoughts on the loss of USAID funding for coffee research, and the possibly misguided hope that corporations will step up.
Unions doing good, unions doing... less good.
One of those weeks where it seems like nothing’s happening, but then if you dig down a bit there’s a lot going on. Like:
Read the full news roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:
If you missed it, you can read my interview with best-selling author and Youtuber John Green (!!!) about the Awesome Coffee Club, systems change in Sierra Leone, and whether or not he’ll ever return to Twitter:
Until next week, it’s goodbye from Merlin:
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