During my visit to Honduras, last month, I visited the Cruz Alta community in Santa Rosa de Copan. I visited Efigio at his farm where the other farmers in his Fair Trade group were already meeting. Efigio is a young independent smallholder that grows coffee just as his parents and his older brother do. He …
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A win-win-win for consumers, farmers and the environment
In my last post I wrote about my visit to Honduras where I met independent smallholders preparing to join Fair Trade. One of the farmers, Faustino, told me how preparing for Fair Trade helped him and his community to save water and reduce pollution, while improving the quality of coffee. As Faustino mentions in the …
“Things are changing” – Farmers in Honduras prepare for Fair Trade
Last week, I visited smallholder coffee farmers in the Department of Copan in Honduras, one of the most beautiful regions in the country. We are working with more than 100 farmers in Copan who want to join Fair Trade but who are not part of a cooperative or other farmer organization who could get Fair …
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 …
extraordinary people behind extraordinary coffees
“There are no specialty coffees, only extraordinary people who produce excellent coffees.” – Marino Yanapa, CECOVASA I met Raúl Mamani six years ago when he came to the U.S. to promote his cooperative’s coffee and to speak to consumers and industry about Fair Trade. It took him three days to travel to Lima from …
