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Our relationships with farmers, their cooperatives, and their communities are at the heart of our business model. We recognize that long-term trade relationships are the bread and butter of our own cooperative. The vast majority of coffee we buy comes from the same coffee famers year after year– some of these relationships have been nurtured for 10 or 15 years. We recognize that building community and investing in farmers gives them the security of knowing that they can sell their coffee for a higher price every year. It also allows us to know that we will be able to have a regular supply of excellent coffee to roast for our customers.
To find out more about our farmer partners and to see our contracts with them, please see the Fair Trade Proof interactive pages.
- Bolivia- Asociación Integral de Productores Ecológicos de Pumiri (AIPEP)
- Colombia- ASOANEI (ANEI)
- Colombia- Fondo Paez
- Democratic Republic of Congo- Solidarité Paysanne pour la Promotion des Actions Café et Développement Intégral (SOPACDI)
- Democratic Republic of Congo- La Cooperative de Café Muungano
- Ecuador- Federación Regional de Asociaciones de Pequeños Cafetaleros Ecológicos del Sur (FAPECAFES)
- Ethiopia- Fero
- Ethiopia- Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU)
- Guatemala- APECAFORM
- Guatemala- Comité Campesino del Altiplano (CCDA)
- Guatemala – Cooperativa Agrícola y de Servicios Varios Río Azul
- Honduras- Café Orgánico Marcala SA (COMSA)
- Mexico- Unión de Productores Maya Vinic (Maya Vinic)
- Mexico- Yachil Xolobal Chulchan (Yachil)
- Nicaragua- Las Diosas
- Peru- Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera Pangoa (CAC Pangoa)
- Peru- Cooperativa Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui
- Peru- Norandino
- Sumatra- Permata Gayo
Legacy Coffee Farmer Sources
How To Make Coffee Soda
Summer is here which means times to jazz up, or in this case, fizz up your coffee game. Coffee Soda has become a trendy [read: hipster] way to consume some good ol’ fashioned [pun intended, keep reading] cup of joe. In all seriousness, this summer-time, good-feelin’...
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 have...
Water For All: Project Chiapas
Matt Earley -- Chiapas, Mexico -- January 2016 To kick-off our 2016 Delegations, I spent the first part of January in Chiapas, Mexico with our partner On The Ground Global. We were there with a delegation of people to visit coffee co-ops and to find out more about On...
Know Your Coffee: MOSA Code & Roast Log
If someone ever tells you all coffee is the same, punch them in the face. Just kidding, don’t do that, that’s assault. What you should do is tell them how there are many varieties of coffees unique to their origins in both flavor and profile. One way to know...
We’re Growing Our Farmer Cooperative Network!
Have you heard? We've teamed up with this Laos based cooperative for our newest (limited addition) single origin roast! The "Bolaven Plateau Coffee Producers Cooperative" or CPC was created in 2007 with the support of the Laotian government and the French Development...
Beyond Coffee
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La Roya & The Road To Recovery
I have returned from the first On The Ground Nicaragua Delegation with lots of good news and some troubling news as well. The good work that the women have done cannot be overstated, but as usual there are some significant challenges ahead of them and they need our...
Nica News
We are a little more than a week away from the first Just Coffee/On The Ground trip to Las Diosas and FEM. In tow, we have eleven fantastic people with varied backgrounds -- all with one compelling common interest -- women's empowerment. All of the participants are...
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 strengthen...
