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#037 - Another Invisible Work Behind Specialty Coffee
Direct trade demands capital. Here is how we’re structuring Meiero to survive the tough moments.
Renato Stivanin
Sep 83 min read


#036 - The NY Commodities Exchange Legacy vs. The Craft Future: Can Specialty Coffee Ever Untether from Futures Pricing?
How a 19th-century futures market built for commercial grade coffee forces craft roasters, and conscious consumers to rewrite the rules of trade.
Renato Stivanin
Aug 253 min read


#035 - Meiero’s European Home: Quick Lessons that Change Everything
Settling into our new base, summer holidays, and the real friction of global coffee expansion.
Renato Stivanin
Aug 173 min read


#034 - Why the Supermarket Coffee Aisle Looks the Same
And how transparency and long-term relationships can change the game for specialty roasters.
Renato Stivanin
Aug 62 min read


#033 - Building a Two-Way Bridge: Santos to Rotterdam
What Brazil's delayed harvest means for European coffee buyers (and our move to the Netherlands).
Renato Stivanin
Jul 313 min read


#032 - Bridging Dutch Agritech and Brazilian Fields
Building a direct pipeline between European precision tech and Brazilian producers.
Renato Stivanin
Jul 243 min read


#031 - The Battle for the Clean Cup: Why Post-Harvest Tech is the New Frontier in Coffee Sourcing
As climate change complicates the harvest, a massive tech shift in the mill is quietly redrawing the lines between commercial and specialty coffee.
Renato Stivanin
Jul 165 min read


#030 - The Volatility Trap
Navigating coffee’s historic price swings through real relationships, not short positions.
Renato Stivanin
Jul 83 min read


#029 - Liquid Markets, Dry Fields: De-risking the Coffee Supply Chain Through Green Tech
Climate change is abstract; coffee prices are not. A data-driven look at Brazil's irrigation gap and the impact investment case for climate-proofing agriculture.
Renato Stivanin
Jul 34 min read


#028 - Before the AI Hype: How A/B Testing Rewrote Our Coffee Harvest
Why AI takes a backseat to old-school engineering in the race to escape the commodity trap.
Renato Stivanin
Jun 263 min read


#027 - Breaking the Cycle: Why the Best Brazilian Coffee is Staying at Home
Insights from our European tour, the realities of the 2026 crop, and why the "C" price doesn't tell the whole story.
Renato Stivanin
Jun 193 min read


#026 - Managing Core Risks in an Unpredictable Coffee Market
With transit delays hitting up to 90 days and Brazilian exports down 24%, here is why the "just-in-time" model is broken—and how to protect your roastery from the squeeze.
Renato Stivanin
Jun 84 min read


#025 - Why We Don't Incentivize Organic Coffee (Although We Love Organic Food)
We feed our kids organic food, but coffee is a completely different story. Here is what happened in Minas Gerais.
Renato Stivanin
Jun 13 min read


#024 - Perpetuity Over Predictions: What the Brazil Harvest Means for Your Inventory
Prices are correcting, but the backwardation trap isn't over yet.
Renato Stivanin
May 224 min read


#023 - Terroir Over Trademarks: Moving past the industrial "blend" to showcase the chocolatey naturals of Sul de Minas
How the Commodity Machine Broke Coffee, and How We’re Fixing the Supply Chain.
Renato Stivanin
May 135 min read


#022 - From Farm to Roastery: Real Data on the Agroforestry Transition
What price differential is necessary for farmers to produce shade-grown sustainable coffee?
Renato Stivanin
May 54 min read


#021 - Why Direct Coffee Sourcing is Harder (and More Rewarding) Than It Looks
“You have to suffer. Otherwise, you are not creating value.”
Renato Stivanin
Apr 293 min read


#020 - From Chemicals to Biologicals: Bridging the Regenerative Gap in Global Coffee
We have a mission to bring good practices from Europe to Brazil, especially regarding environmental issues.
Renato Stivanin
Apr 235 min read


#019 - The 90-Day Odyssey: Navigating War, Storms, and the Lessons of our First Container
Our shipment is on its final leg to Rotterdam. Here are some of our lessons learnt.
Renato Stivanin
Apr 154 min read


#018 - The Logistics Bottleneck: Vertical Integration and the Global Shipping Giants
Brazil suffers from low competition among container carriers.
Renato Stivanin
Apr 84 min read
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