OZZANO DELL’EMILIA, Bologna, Italy – After the highly successful Coffee Grinding Research Week and Academy Day last autumn, IMA Coffee, in partnership with b.farm, is launching its first Green Coffee Academy: an all-round training course on green coffee specifically targeted at coffee professionals. An experiential journey that will start off in the plantations of Honduras and end in the research facilities of IMA Coffee Lab.
The Green Coffee Academy’s main theme is the green coffee supply chain – from the plantation all the way to cleaning and roasting plants.
The origin of the project
The project stems from the need to investigate the origins of green coffee in order to better understand its botanical species and varieties, harvesting and processing techniques, and clarify which possible green coffee defects are original faults and which ones are acquired during progress through the supply chain.
The goal of this full immersion initiative will be to improve knowledge of the raw materials and the supply chain – from the growing countries all the way to the roasting plants – in order to identify the virtuous dynamics that help obtain a quality drink by eliminating waste and any defects that might become apparent when coffee is in the roasting phase and especially in the cup; another goal is to make product processing more efficient by using low energy impact technologies. In-depth knowledge of the product and of the technologies necessary to correctly process raw materials give supply chain players the right tools to be able to implement corporate social responsibility projects.
Event schedule
There are three events scheduled for the first Green Coffee Academy, from February until March.
The “Coffee Camp Honduras 2023”, the first appointment, is about to start. A training campus, based in Las Capucas, Honduras, in the Finca Rio Colorado plantation, from February 23rd until March 2nd for the Aromateller Expert Short course, or from February 23rd until March 6th 2023 for the Aromateller Expert Full course.
The event, organised and coordinated by b.farm in conjunction with the Las Capucas COCAFCAL growers cooperative and Umami Area Honduras, includes a trip to visit the coffee plantations of Las Capucas and Francisco Villeda growers. Each participant will be able to attend, practise and learn all the stages of quality Arabica coffee production, tutored by a team of b.farm experts and authorised SCA trainers.
Other dedicated campuses will train Aromatellers, i.e. experts who must know and be able to give details on the whole coffee supply chain – from the plantation to the cup, as well as possess skills in fields ranging from sensory analysis to the entire coffee production chain.
After the Campus, two more IMA Coffee Lab events are scheduled for the month of March.
One day of qualifying training on green coffee skills at the IMA Coffee Lab green coffee reception and cleaning facility, following the SCA Coffee Skills Program and, as the final stage of the program, the IMA Coffee Lab Academy Day: a day of sharing and training for coffee professionals, which includes a program packed full with papers and workshops on green coffee, with the participation of coffee experts, roasters and international producers.
The dates of Coffee Lab events will be published soon.
To stay up-to-date, visit the website: ima.it/coffee/ima-coffee-lab
For information and contacts: coffeelab@ima.it
About IMA Coffee Lab
IMA Coffee Lab embodies a fundamental aspect of the vision in creating IMA Coffee HUB. A single source for the industry’s leading companies has encouraged IMA to provide a location where you can envision your project and envisage how to implement the coffee plant you dream of. Here are the experts, the technologies, the innovations and the insights, each addressing the needs of a global market where IMA provides a pioneering, all-encompassing vision of the coffee experience.
