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Alejandro Cadena from Caravela Coffee on the Podcast | Week 41, 2025
Alejandro Cadena from Caravela Coffee on the Podcast | Week 41, 2025

This week on The Daily Coffee Pro by Map It Forward, Alejandro Cadena - CEO and co-founder of Caravela Coffee, a leading specialty exporter in Latin America and importer into consuming regions - joins us to dissect how 2025 has become the most challenging year in a decade for coffee. From geopolitics and tariffs to financing lines, margin calls, and the squeeze on the middle market, Alejandro offers an operator’s view of what’s real, what’s noise, and how to plan for the next 18 months.

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This Week at Map It Forward: Week 29, 2025
This Week at Map It Forward: Week 29, 2025

In this blog post…

The Industry: Is Diversification the Solution to the Coffee Crisis?

Global Podcast: Our guest for our five-part series on our global podcast, The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward, is Kelvin Ngow from Coffex Coffee and Mono Origine in Malaysia.

Middle East Podcast: Our guest on the Map It Forward Middle East Podcast this week is Yozo Otsuki, Founder of global brand Kurasu based in Kyoto, Japan.

Map It Forward Japan: Our guest on Map It Forward Japan this week is Alejandro Cadena, Green Coffee Exporter at Caravela Coffee based in Colombia.

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This Week at Map It Forward: Week 28, 2025
This Week at Map It Forward: Week 28, 2025

In this blog post…

The Industry: The C Market goes below 290

Global Podcast: Our guest for our five-part series on our global podcast, The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward, is George Howell from George Howell Coffee in the USA.

Middle East Podcast: Our guest on the Map It Forward Middle East Podcast this week is Angela Barrero, Colombian Coffee Farmer at Bodega de la Finca and Cafe Tiolita based in Quindio, Colombia.

Map It Forward Japan: Our guest on Map It Forward Japan this week is Alejandro Cadena, Green Coffee Exporter at Caravela Coffee based in Colombia.

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[This Week On The Podcast] "2025 - A Defnitive Year In Coffee" with Alejandro Cadena from Caravela Coffee
[This Week On The Podcast] "2025 - A Defnitive Year In Coffee" with Alejandro Cadena from Caravela Coffee

We are back for 2025 and we’re starting with a bang!

This week on the podcast we welcome Alejandro Cadena, CEO of Caravela Coffee back to the podcast for the first time in many years. Caravela Coffee is a globally recognized green coffee exporter out of Latin America and an importer into consuming regions around the world.

In this discussion, Alejandro and Lee discuss the definitive nature of the year ahead, 2025. This series explores what we should expect, how we got here, and why this is a year that is unlike any other in the history of the coffee industry.

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