This is Part 5 of a five-part series with Sean Warner from the Honduran Coffee Alliance, exploring how coffee pricing is set today and how it may change in the future.

In the final episode, Lee Safar and Sean Warner discuss potential alternatives to Arabica-dependent pricing, the implications of the C market disappearing, and what producer-led pricing models could look like in practice.

They reflect on resilience, power, and the importance of building pricing systems that can withstand ongoing volatility across the coffee supply chain.

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This is Part 4 of a five-part series with Sean Warner from the Honduran Coffee Alliance, exploring how coffee pricing is set today and how it may change in the future.

In this episode, Lee Safar and Sean Warner explore direct trade as a proposed solution to pricing instability. They discuss how different trade models function, where power sits in pricing conversations, and why direct trade succeeds in some contexts while failing in others.

The conversation focuses on pricing references, long-term relationships, and what enables producers to maintain meaningful prices over time.

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This is Part 3 of a five-part series with Sean Warner from the Honduran Coffee Alliance, exploring how coffee pricing is set today and how it may change in the future.

In this episode, Lee Safar and Sean Warner focus on the often-overlooked role of risk and liquidity in coffee pricing. While price receives most of the attention, this conversation highlights how payment timing and financing structures affect producers, roasters, and exporters.

They discuss the pressure that high prices place on cash flow, the role of multinationals in financing, and why payment terms can determine whether businesses remain viable during periods of volatility.

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This is Part 2 of a five-part series with Sean Warner from the Honduran Coffee Alliance, exploring how coffee pricing is set today and how it may change in the future.

In this episode, Lee Safar and Sean Warner examine why coffee pricing is inherently complicated. They discuss the limitations of using the C price as a reference, the historical volatility of coffee markets, and why countries with vastly different production costs are often priced using the same benchmark.

Using Honduras as a case study, they explore how cost of production, quality, and payment timing affect pricing outcomes for producers.

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This is Part 1 of a five-part series with Sean Warner from the Honduran Coffee Alliance, exploring how coffee pricing is set today and how it may change in the future.

In this episode, Lee Safar and Sean Warner unpack how coffee is currently priced across the supply chain. They discuss the role of the C market, differences in production costs between origins, spot coffee versus future contracts, and why rising retail prices do not necessarily translate into improved income for producers.

This episode sets the foundation for the rest of the series.

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