Farmer Cooperatives
Plant Disease, Climate Change and What We’re Doing to Fight It
Since 2013 Just Coffee Cooperative has been working with our importing co-op– Cooperative Coffees– to support our farmer partners in the face of severe plant disease and the overall effects of climate change. By donating five cents for every pound of...
The Pursuit of Taste: How Obsession with Quality is Intensifying Climate Change and Putting Farmers at Risk
by Chandler Meyer We’ve got a problem in the coffee industry. Most of the world’s coffee is extremely limited in genetic diversity, with only eight out of 120 species of the Coffee genus being cultivated by farmers. Because of this lack of genetic diversity, coffee...
Coffee and Climate: “Little Soldiers” Fighting the Food Fight
by Chandler Meyer When a coffee plant puts out its first few leaves and small branches, the coffee farmers of Maya Vinic call their plants “little soldiers”, and soldiers they most certainly are. In today’s global climate, coffee plants face a plethora of challenges...
Maya Vinic Farmers Are Again Under Threat
Some of our partners of the Maya Vinic cooperative in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico have once again been displaced by insecurity and violence in their communities. Between 4000 and 5000 people in the area have had to leave their homes since October because of...
