INTERNATIONAL Coffee Day takes place on Friday 1 October, with the theme this year of ‘Coffee’s Next Generation’, featuring an initiative targeting talented and motivated young people and entrepreneurs in the coffee sector.

The International Coffee Organisation’s (ICO) initiative intends to provide young people with access to finance and knowledge, skills development, coaching and training as well as networking.

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“Investing in youth will generate both innovative and sustainable solutions for the coffee sector, contributing to building back a more equitable and prosperous coffee sector, enabling recovery from the COVID-19 set-back and seeding a stronger future for coffee communities worldwide,” states the ICO.

Toormina-based coffee champion Luke Floyd, the founder and Director of Artisti Coffee Roasters, told News Of The Area, “Amidst facing one of the craziest global challenges in 20/21 that we’ve seen in our lifetime, coffee has been a shining light not only allowing people to stay connected, as the takeaway brew has not been restricted, it showed its true strength of financial stability across the world through to the humble coffee farmer overseas who works so tirelessly to reap the harvest under some very challenging circumstances.

“From the single pleasures of taste, smell and effect on us as a hot beverage to the multiple-layered networks that it flows through, including cafes, restaurants, hospitality industry equipment manufacturing, dairy and alternative milks, skills training, import and export commodities and the packaging industry.

“Through our YouTube channel we are inspiring the new, the young and the experienced to become better at making coffee and sharing their knowledge.

“Each month we showcase a single origin coffee from a farm or region, sharing their story so that when you get to taste it you have an understanding of what is different and how much effort someone has put in for you to be able to enjoy a pleasurable coffee.

“We are proud to have in our team a representative from each decade from teens to 60s allowing a blend of the old and the new to ensure we preserve the past’s quality and passions but look to the bright future that our next generations will be able to achieve through a new fresh set of eyes.”

International Coffee Day’s ‘Coffee’s Next Generation’ is a call to the global coffee community, to all the stakeholders and to the millions of coffee consumers and lovers to celebrate coffee and to contribute to building coffee’s next generation.

By Andrea FERRARI