About ASIC

The Association Scientifique Internationale du Café (ASIC) was founded in 1966 following two coffee colloquia organised in Paris by the Institut Français du Café et du Cacao (IFCC) with the target of setting up a body which would periodically bring together coffee specialists from all over the world.
The objectives and mode of operation of the ASIC as defined in the by-laws (art. 1) are:

• to distribute as widely as possible scientific, technical and applied knowledge concerning coffee,
• to contribute to the permanent update of this knowledge by this distribution, and
• to facilitate exchanges between experts from similar and/or different disciplines.

Members may be individual scientists and companies, associations, chambers of commerce, research institutes, foundations, etc.

During the twenty colloquia organised since 1963, ASIC has dealt with the main topics associated with coffee research, such as:

• agronomy in all its aspects: genetics, botany, physiology, agrotechnics, pests and diseases, etc.;
• chemistry: techniques used in coffee analysis, chemical composition, aroma, etc.;
• technology: green coffee processing, roasting, grinding, extraction, decaffeination, etc.;
• physiological effects: coffee and health;
• packaging, storage, etc.

The proceedings of the different colloquia published by the ASIC provide the texts of all the contributions presented in full.

This series of publications, the authors of which are amongst the most eminent international specialists in their fields, consists of over thousand articles. It provides an original source of exceptional technical and scientific information relevant to coffee trees and coffee, that is indispensable to both scientists and professionals.

These publications can be consulted at or purchased from the ASIC office. The Table of Contents of all Proceedings can be consulted from this Web site. For the most recent issues, abstracts are also available. Restricted access to full papers is only possible for the Proceedings of the 19th (Trieste, 2001) and 20th (Bangalore, 2004) conferences. In any case, copies of individual articles may be ordered from ASIC office.

ASIC is the only completely independent organisation in the world whose scientific vocation is specifically devoted to the coffee tree, the coffee bean and the coffee drink. It is also the only one which, through its periodical international colloquia, offers specialists in different disciplines the possibility of meeting and becoming familiar with each other's work.

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