Coffee’s new world order: Part one

Climate change, soaring demand, emerging markets and radical new technologies are sending shockwaves through the global coffee industry. As coffee businesses across the supply chain confront new trading realities and disruptive market forces, a new world order is emerging that will fundamentally reshape the business of coffee and hospitality. In the first of a two-part series, Tobias Pearce explores the causes behind record-high coffee prices, how major shifts in global trade are sweeping away long-held industry norms, and why tough decisions and new approaches are required across the global supply chain