Why Single-Origin Coffee Is So Expensive | So Expensive Food | Insider Business

If coffee was cultivated in the US and western Europe, 1 kg of the cheapest coffee would cost $100 but because it's africans and south-americans, no need to pay them more than 50 cents.

I quit drinking coffee, there is nothing luxurious about having not enough sleep and anxiety

In El Salvador my town Ahuachapan the pilling and roasting process is done dry with out water.

No one coffee like Yemeni Coffee

The money needs to go go the farmers. If rosters are charging $30 a pound and the farmer in this video mentioned he makes just over $3 a pound, that is simply not right.

The coffee price has gone up more than 2 years, quality drops for quite a bit, some origins are almost double the price compare to 3 years ago. How come the farmer got a lower price?

Just copy the oil producers. Form an association. Call it COPEC. Declare coffee as 'finite resources' and always in limited supply. Control production. Profit.

The most expensive coffee is geisha code from Panama and Costa Rica … sell only on line … goin for more than 2000 thousand for pound…

Di daerah ku harga kopi Robusta Rp 35.000/kg Arabika Rp. 40.000/kg Apakah udah layak??

I am a coffee farmer and processor From Embu Kenya and I appreciate the story, i can be contacted for single origin coffee

Coffee kinda reminds me of spice from Dune.

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I hope Joseph saw this video and he can really get the money he deserves.

Yet the farmers are under-paid and over-exploited while the land gets destroyed even more.

Single origin coffee has to do alot with soil and climate . The higher level below sea level will grow its best

i want to try single origin coffee but idk what brands i should use

Oh so all the hard work and fermentation happens there and then people claim its their beans when they roast it here 😂

The coffee farmers are struggling to send their kids to school, while the price of coffee at big corporations remains exorbitantly high. It is not fair to leave the farmers poor; the world needs to play fairly.

metric coffee 🙌🏽

But Brasil, apart from being the largest producer, have many SINGLE ORIGIN coffee, or boutique coffe, special brands and different taste !

The exploitation of these farmers is appalling.They should create Coffee Cartels and control demand and prices overally.😏

Amazing doc! More of these !!

The process is different from that of uganda, we dry them first before removing the shell

Thank you for the wonderful documentary, the farmers deserve more of their hard work

I can get 500g of arabica single origin in Cambodia for $8us..Pailin Prov😅nce..

If ever visit Ethiopia or Kenya and have the privilege to visit their farms their coffee is rich and sweet without any sugar or cream. The people are wonderful and the price is well worth the labor.

This video really did a great job covering the specialty coffee industry. Bravo

I worked for a grain facility and my boss would make me degrade all the corn, soy bean and wheat just to make a little more money. I hated my life for those two years and appreciated farmers for all their hard work. Not only the farmers but the workers behind every step of the way. Hated to see the small farmers barely breaking even bc my shitty boss.

It is indeed

'World is flooded with coffee" - obviously Joseph is being lied to, given the drop in supply in recent years

Excellent documentary. I subscribe to a service that mails me different single origin coffee every month. I don't consider it expensive. DO the math - a pound of beans will give you about 32 cups of coffee. At $30/lb, that's $1/cup of good tasting coffee. If you go to the cafe and buy it then it will be about $5/cup of burnt/dark roast that you have to add cream and sugar to so that you can consume it.

watching this while having my coffee ☕

It isn't expensive for the work, effort and quality that goes in to it. The real question is, how is cheap coffee so cheap, and who is being shafted to make it that cheap?

If it’s really so volatile for the farmers, then why don’t they put any profits they have in co-ops into developing ways to roast and export their coffees as a final product? It seems like the roasters are the ones turning a $3.40 pound of coffee into a $25 10 ounce bag. The roasters are just middlemen here. It would be better for the customers and farmers to cut them out.

It's not. What's expensive is a comercial coffee espresso/latte/... at any regular café or bar.

excellent video ! Very exact and detailed. I have read all this but getting the pictures from Kenya, my favorite coffee region, is amazing. Thanks!

Most problems is market , most coffees farmers live in poverty despite coffee being very expensive, Kenyans coffee is full cartels which make farmer to receive peanut after sell, ,governments should erase cartels ,,

"The real thruth of it is, that you can buy coffee at commodity pricing that meets specialty coffee standarts" That tells you everything you all you need to know about "specialty" and "specialty single origin" coffee prices and pricing.

Love this video. Pay farmers what they deserve 👏🏼

Absolutely beautiful video, top nob job to everyone who worked on it

I will gladly pay $30/lb for good quality coffee!

Didn't expect to see Metric Coffee from Chicago here! Great tasting coffee

Coffee without additives like sugar and creams Taste Bad by itself like cocoa so its BS you have to compare the Final product with Additives on different kinds of coffee.

It would be great to buy 5 lbs straight from the farm I’ll give him 10 dollars a lb.

Thank you for the wonderful documentary, the farmers deserve more of their hard work

"Everybody knows black Joe stills pickin cotton for your ribbons and bows and everybody knows" - Leonard Cohen

Until we start processing our own raw materials we will not be paid for the value of our quality coffee.

I'm curious on the quality of water being used during the wash process and the possibility of water contamination.

this series is getting bigger and bigger, since everything is getting so expensive