La Roya (Coffee Rust)
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...
Las Diosas La Roya Update
Author: Matt Earley — April 28th, 2016 Las Diosas is moving ahead and continuing to make steady recovery progress from the coffee fungus (La Roya) that took the vast majority of their coffee three years ago. With our non-profit partner On The Ground (OTG) we...
Beyond Coffee
Although all of the efforts the women of Las Diosas are showing in their new coffee crops, it brings us to the obvious question – what are these women doing to survive in the meantime as their income recovers? One approach the women of Las Diosas have recently...
