Glossary
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Certifications
The Rainforest Alliance CertifiedTM seal is awarded to farms, forest, and businesses that meet comprehensive environmental and social standards. Those standards encompass the three aspects of sustainability; environmental, social, and economic. Continual improvement is required from the farms to further enable sustainable agriculture, so farms are regularly audited.
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Organic Certified coffee is always certified by local Organic organisations of the origin country. The certification is given to products that are produced without using chemical fertilizers nor chemical pesticides.
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Direct Trade
A term used for coffee directly sourced and traded from the producers. Unlike Fair Trade, direct trade is not a certification but describes a manner of sourcing and trading. That also means that different companies uses the term in different ways. ​
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Organic Certified coffee is always certified by local Organic organisations of the origin country. The certification is given to products that are produced without using chemical fertilizers nor chemical pesticides.
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Market Price/ World Market Price
The market price is the world market price in the month the coffee purchase was made. It is the relevant price from the four quality categories used in the world market. Prices are sourced from icocoffee.org
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Producer price
Producer price is the amount received by the coffee producer/Co-operative, without the export fee/expenses.
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Quality Bonus
Quality Bonus is the extra amount we pay to producers to recognise the high quality of coffee. The Quality Bonus is calculated when deducting the market price from the FOB price. On each bag of coffee we sell the Quality Bonus is shown in percentage above the market price for easier interpretation.
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​​​Return to Origin / FOB
When buying green coffee from an exporter, we pay a Free On Board price. When a producer is also the exporter, the producer price and return to origin price are the same. When the producer is not exporting themselves, we specify the producer price.
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SCA Quality Score
The quality score is based on the “Total Score Quality Classification” from SCA’s Cupping Protocol: Below Specialty Quality [<80], Very Good [80-84,99], Excellent [85-89,99], and Outstanding [90-100].
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In general, we don’t believe a single number can describe the quality of a coffee.
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Therefore, we do not use the individual scores of the SCA system. For the purpose of comparison and understanding we assign the broader quality categories (Very Good, Excellent and Outstanding) in the Transparency Table.