La Roya (Coffee Rust)
Living With Roya In The Highlands of Chiapas
Three years ago the Roya (Coffee Leaf Rust) fungus spread from South America to Central America like wildfire. At that time it was clear that if conditions did not change it would run up the isthmus into Southern Mexico devastating small-scale farmers’ livelihoods the...
Maya Vinic Diversifies in the Face of Roya
Like co-ops all over Central and South America, Maya Vinic is struggling with Roya or Coffee Rust– I’ll talk about that in my next post. While the co-op is trying to deal with combatting the fungus and to reinvigorate their coffee fields they are moving to...
An update on Las Diosas
You may have noticed that we are currently out of Las Diosas coffee. This is super unfortunate considering it has been a staple of ours since 2006 or so. It is also indicative of the crisis that they are facing– the loss of a large percentage of their coffee to...Las Diosas Proect Nica Update
In 2014 Just Coffee put a lot of time and energy into raising resources for and awareness about the situation of our good partners in Nicaragua– Las Diosas. As you probably know, Las Diosas is a women’s cooperative of coffee farmers in northern Nicaragua who...
