Course 17 of 20 · Coffee Desk Academy

Specialty Coffee, Traceability & Premiums

Stage D, Fixation and structured price protection. Level 8 of 10.

Pricing and administering specialty, certified and traceable lots where the premium is detached from the exchange price.

125 chapters · 12 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 02, Course 10, Course 16

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How a chapter is delivered

One chapter is one idea taken to the point of use

Each chapter covers one idea to the point where you can use it, and comes two ways: a narrated explainer, and a deep dive audio discussion of around thirty minutes that works the same material at depth.

Self-paced throughout, and the same chapters can be taught as a cohort. Chapters run in order: each one assumes only what the chapters before it taught, and capability belonging to a later course is named and deferred rather than half-covered.

Curriculum

12 modules · 125 chapters

Open any module for its full chapter list, in teaching order.

M0 The Premium the Exchange Price Cannot Carry Ch 1-11
  1. A Lot Whose Price the Exchange Does Not Set
  2. Attached, Hybrid and Detached Pricing Side by Side
  3. The Differential Belongs to the Benchmark, the Premium Does Not
  4. The Price Paid and the Price Obtainable Are Two Tests
  5. Certification, Traceability and Reputation Pulled Apart
  6. A Premium Is Worth What Its Records Can Prove
  7. Who Sits Where Around a Certified Coffee Lot
  8. The Working Vocabulary of Premium Administration
  9. Scheme Licence, Import Rule, Contract and Market Expectation
  10. Why Specialty Rules Are Rewritten Faster Than Trade Rules
  11. The Roaster's Programme, the Border File and the Origin Portfolio
M1 Setting a Price With No Benchmark Underneath It Ch 12-21
  1. Negotiating an Outright Price for a Single Lot
  2. The Reference Points That Exist When No Quotation Does
  3. The Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide as a Published Reference
  4. Cup Score Tiers Converted Into a Price Schedule
  5. Competition and Auction Results as Price Evidence
  6. A Cost Build-Up Price and What It Assumes
  7. Repeat Business and the Carried-Forward Price
  8. How Long an Outright Quotation Stays Good
  9. A Multi-Year Relationship Price and Its Review Clause
  10. Recording an Outright Price So an Auditor Can Follow It
M2 Hybrids: Where Attachment Survives and Where It Stops Ch 22-31
  1. A Differential Lot Carrying a Certification Payment on Top
  2. The Conditional Minimum Price as an Embedded Right
  3. Valuing a Floor Without Flooring the Average
  4. The Fairtrade Minimum Price and Premium as Two Mechanisms
  5. Sustainability Differential and Investments Under Rainforest Alliance
  6. Which Leg of a Hybrid Can Be Hedged and Which Cannot
  7. A Premium Riding on an Unfixed Balance
  8. Who Receives the Premium and What the Receipt Must Show
  9. Switching a Contract From Differential to Outright Mid-Season
  10. Capturing Both Legs in the Trade Record
M3 Position, Valuation and Measured Sensitivity Ch 32-41
  1. What the Resale Price of an Unsold Specialty Parcel Follows
  2. When a Proxy Hedge Helps and When It Costs More Than It Covers
  3. Marking a Detached Lot When Nothing Quotes It
  4. The Stale Valuation Problem on a Slow-Moving Premium
  5. The Sensitivity Figure a Detached Parcel Must Carry
  6. A Separate Book for Detached Business
  7. Premium at Risk Against Price at Risk
  8. What an Exchange Rally Does to a Book Holding Both
  9. Why a Detached Lot Still Consumes Credit and Cash
  10. Handing a Detached Position Into the Combined View
M4 The Schemes, Standards and Programmes, Named Ch 42-53
  1. Why One Lot Can Carry Several Certifications at Once
  2. Who Writes the Standard, Who Audits the Mill, Who Licenses the Auditor
  3. Fairtrade International and the Producer Organisation Requirement
  4. Rainforest Alliance and the Scheme It Absorbed
  5. 4C and the Entry-Level Baseline Standard
  6. Organic Coffee Under Three Named Regimes
  7. Organic Equivalency Arrangements and the Gap They Leave
  8. Bird Friendly and the Single-Issue Standard
  9. Company Programmes: C.A.F.E. Practices and Nespresso AAA
  10. Verification Without a Certificate: the Enveritas Model
  11. ISEAL Membership and What a Coffee Buyer Can Check
  12. Reading a Scheme Rulebook Before a Contract Cites It
M5 Origin Names, Geographical Indications and Estate Claims Ch 54-63
  1. An Origin Name as Property Rather Than a Description
  2. The Colombian Coffee Protected Designation in the European Union
  3. Jamaica Blue Mountain and a Statutory Origin Authority
  4. Kona and a State Labelling Statute
  5. Antigua Guatemala and a Producer-Run Denomination
  6. The Ethiopian Route Through Trade Marks Rather Than Indications
  7. Licence, Register and the Right to Print the Name
  8. A Blend Containing a Protected Name on the Front of the Bag
  9. Single Estate, Single Farm and Micro-Lot Claims Without a Register
  10. What an Origin Name Does Not Promise About the Cup
M6 Chain of Custody for a Specialty Lot Ch 64-74
  1. The Custody Model Decides What the Roaster May Say
  2. Identity Preserved From One Washing Station
  3. Segregation Through a Dry Mill and a Container
  4. Mass Balance Applied to a Certified Coffee Volume
  5. Controlled Blending and a Percentage Claim on a Retail Bag
  6. Book and Claim in Coffee and Who Accepts It
  7. Where a Lot Loses Its Identity in Practice
  8. The Lot Code as the Carrier of Everything Else
  9. A Chain Claims Only the Weakest Model Any Link Used
  10. Parchment to Green and the Claim Across the Conversion
  11. Roast Loss and the Claim on a Finished Retail Weight
M7 Volume Reconciliation and the Evidence File Ch 75-84
  1. Certified Volume Produced, Received and Invoiced
  2. The Overselling Failure and How It Surfaces
  3. Scope Certificates and Transaction Certificates
  4. The Organic Certificate of Inspection and Who Needs It
  5. Member Delivery Records Inside a Cooperative
  6. The Internal Control System a Group Certificate Rests On
  7. What a Dry Mill's Intake and Outturn Records Must Show
  8. Segregation Records at a Destination Warehouse
  9. When the Receipt Book Ran Out at Harvest Peak
  10. The Evidence Pack a Roaster's Auditor Will Request
M8 Traceability Claims and Deforestation Due Diligence Ch 85-95
  1. How Deep a Traceability Claim Reaches
  2. Geolocation, Plot Polygons and Who Actually Collects Them
  3. The European Union Deforestation Regulation as It Touches Coffee
  4. The Due Diligence Statement and the Information Behind It
  5. The United Kingdom Forest Risk Commodity Provisions
  6. Smallholder Plot Data and the Cost of Collecting It
  7. The Verifiability Argument and Its Assumptions
  8. What a Farmer Name and a Photograph Actually Evidence
  9. Platform and Standardised Identifier Traceability Claims
  10. The Border Document Against the Premium Behind It
  11. A Traceability Sentence on a Bag and What It Commits
M9 Audit, Non-Conformity and a Premium That Collapses Ch 96-105
  1. What an Auditor Tests in a Certified Coffee Chain
  2. How the Document Sample Is Drawn at a Cooperative
  3. Non-Conformity Grades and the Closure Deadline
  4. A Corrective Action Plan That Actually Closes a Finding
  5. Suspension While Coffee Is Already on the Water
  6. Decertification and the Lots Already Roasted
  7. The Roaster's Own Audit, Separate From the Scheme's
  8. Allocating the Risk That a Certificate Fails
  9. Remedies When a Premium Turns Out Unsupported
  10. The Certification Warranty Added to a Sale Contract
M10 Contested Ground Ch 106-115
  1. The Farmer Income Argument and Its Assumptions
  2. The Direct Trade Argument and What It Assumes
  3. The Quality Effect Argument and Its Assumptions
  4. The Premium Capture Argument and Its Assumptions
  5. Who Pays the Auditor and What That Buys
  6. Several Certificates on One Lot and the Proliferation Argument
  7. Living Income Reference Prices and the Argument Around Them
  8. The Durability Argument for a Detached Price
  9. Standard Competition and the Levelling-Down Argument
  10. Reaching No Verdict and Saying So to a Customer
M11 A Worked Specialty Programme and Honest Limits Ch 116-125
  1. A Worked Programme, Part One: The Lots and the Claims Promised
  2. A Worked Programme, Part Two: Pricing the Detached Component
  3. A Worked Programme, Part Three: The Volume That Does Not Reconcile
  4. A Worked Programme, Part Four: The Customer Conversation
  5. The Single Standard, the Willing Cooperative and One Market
  6. What a Faultless Premium File Still Leaves Exposed
  7. Coffee Sold Under Last Year's Version of a Standard
  8. The Premium File Handed to the Next Season
  9. What a Counterparty's Certificate and Label Actually Assert
  10. Concentration in a Certified Supply Base

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