…continuing my post on my top moments of 2012, here are the remaining two moments that were special because of the learnings and inspiration they brought to me and my work. 2. Learning from (and with) my labor friends Early this year I went to Brazil and Ecuador with Erik and Kevin: two champions of …
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Top 5 experiences of 2012
We are approaching the end of the year and this has been a challenging but very rewarding year professionally. I have been working to find alternatives to improve the situation of farm workers and independent smallholder farmers in coffee. That means that I have had to travel to many places to build partnerships and work …
new opportunities for independent small-scale farmers in Sumatra
Last week I visited Lake Toba in Northern Sumatra, Indoesia. Lake Toba is the ‘biggest crater lake in the world’ and one of the biggest lakes within an island in the world. It originated 75,000 years ago when Mount Toba erupted in one of the biggest catastrophic events in history that covered Southeast Asia in …