The SCAA Event: Annual Coffeelands Preview
In less than one month the gavel will sound to open The SCAA Event. That means it’s time for the annual Coffeelands preview of The Event’s best “origin content.” In my 2012 SCAA preview post, I...
View ArticleThe USBC Origins Project – Day One
Back in Februrary, after watching the USBC Qualifying Event in Kansas City, I committed myself to this, an initiative I called the “USBC Origins Project.” I found myself wanting more info on the...
View ArticleCaravela Pledges Percentage of Ecuador Coffee Sales for Earthquake Relief
Caravela Coffee, the vertically integrated exporter/importer formerly known as Virmax, has been a key CRS partner in our Borderlands project in Colombia, delivering dozens of single-farm and community...
View ArticleSCAA lecture in review: The Coffee Variety Conundrum: Does Breeding for...
This review is for those of you who were not able to make it to the lecture a few weeks ago. There was a lot of competing lectures held concomitantly with really interesting content. There is 0...
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Coffee’s role in the future of a peaceful Colombia
Maria leads two new cuppers through a quality sample of different lots. Maria and her family were displaced by the conflict. Photo: CRS/Kraig Kraft A few weeks ago, some exciting and hopeful news came...
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Developing the specialty market for robusta with the first “Taza Dorada” in...
The Borderlands project took place on two sides of the Colombian – Ecuadorian border. In Nariño we know about the hidden potential to produce high quality Arabica coffees. We’ve shared some of the...
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New faces in the Coffeelands team
We’re pleased to announce that the Coffeelands team has added some new faces to the team to help the Coffeelands program work towards a more equitable coffee sector in which coffee-dependent...
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Borderlands 2016 Harvest Hits Stores
Pic by Neil Palmer (CIAT). Sacks coffee beans in the village of La Florida in Colombia’s southern Nariño Department, waiting to be exported. In the past week, lots from the 2016 Borderlands harvest...
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Building farmer organizations with social capital
We are temporary actors in the Coffeelands. Although CRS has been working for years in coffee origin countries (over 50 years of continued presence in Central America), projects are by their nature...
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A closer look at what a $2.75 /lb. FOB minimum price means
A few weeks ago, Kickapoo Coffee Roasters publicly committed to paying farmers in their supply chain a minimum of $2.75 FOB per lb. FOB (FOB stands for Free on Board, which means this is the price of...
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Robusta farmers rewarded for quality in the 2nd Taza Dorada
Ángel Cleotildo Varela Arteaga is your 2017 Taza Dorada winner. The Coffeelands blogs suffers from a few coffee prejudices, which we readily admit to. Our geographical base is in Central America and...
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Moving from Savings Groups to Agroenterprises
Among the questions posed in the last entry was: What are the best ways to organize farmers and achieve economies of scale? What models outside of cooperatives may be more realistic and sustainable?...
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