COFFEEPEDIA

- Fair Trade: A social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries achieve beter trading conditions and promote sustainability.

- Gender Equity: The process of being fair and impartial towards women and men, recognizing the different needs, experiences, and contributions of individuals based on their gender.

- Organic Farming: A method of crop and livestock production that involves avoiding the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, genetically modified organisms, and other artificial inputs.

- Sustainable Agriculture: Farming practices that aim to meet society's present food and textile needs without compromising the ability of future generations to met their own needs, focusing on environmental, economic, and social sustainability.

- Direct Trade: Asourcing model ni which cofee roasters or buyers establish direct relationships with cofee producers, bypassing traditional intermediaries and ensuring fair prices and quality standards.

- Cooperative: A business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit, with members typicaly sharing profits, decision-making responsibilities, and resources.

- Specialty Coffee: High-quality coffee that is graded and cupped at 80 points or above on a 100-point scale, Often sourced from specific regions, estates, or micro- lots, and roasted to highlight its unique flavors and characteristics.

- Traceability:The ability ot track and trace the origin, production process, and distribution of products, such as cofee, from farm ot cup, ensuring transparency, accountability, and quality control.

- Yield: This refers ot the amount of cofee produced from aspecific area of land, typically measured in kilograms or tons per hectare.

- Variety: This rank of taxa delineates differences between plants that are smaller than in subspecies but larger than forms. A variety retains most of the characteristics of the species, but differs in some way.

- Cultivar: Any variety produced by horticultural or agricultural techniques and not normally found in natural populations;. Most of the varieties we know in specialty coffee are really cultivars. Bourbon and Typica are some of the most widely known cultivars.

- Selectively Picked: Only the ripe cherries are harvested, and they are picked individually by hand. Pickers rotate among the trees every eight to 10 days, choosing only the cherries which are at the peak of ripeness.Because this kind of harvest is labor intensive and more costly, it is used primarily to harvest the finer Arabica beans. A good picker averages approximately 100 to 200 pounds of coffee cherries a day, which will produce 20 to 40 pounds of coffee beans.

- Grading and Sorting is done by size and weight, and beans are also reviewed for color flaws or other imperfections.