Colombia Tolima ASOPAP Fairtrade Organic is the product of a small union of coffee producers in Planadas, South Tolima, Colombia. Tolima is the third-largest coffee producing region of Colombia, responsible for 12 percent of the country’s annual production. This rural area is cradled by the Andean mountains and the Magdalena read more
Honduras APROCASAM Fairtrade Organic is grown in Ocotepeque, a region on Honduras' western edge, bordering Guatemala and El Salvador. Historically, it's one of the country's most notable coffee-producing regions. In Ocotepeque's central valley, smallholder producers have pooled their resources to create the cooperative organization Asociacion de Productores de Café San read more
Peru Sangareni G1 Organic is the product of Cooperativa Agraria Sangareni in the Province of Satipo, Junín Region. Junin is one of three main coffee growing regions in Peru. The majority of coffee grown in this central region comes from two provinces: Chanchamayo and Satipo. Here, the mountains and jungle read more
Peru Juan Santos Atahualpa Fairtrade Organic is grown in the Pichanaqui, Chanchamayo, and Junin regions. Adjacent to the forest and at the foot of the highlands, coffee here grows between 900-1800 masl in sheltered microclimates. The coffee is hand and machine pulped using a mechanical pulper. Use of this machine read more
Honduras COPROCAEL Organic comes to us from the Cooperativa de Productores de Café La Encarnacion Limitada in the Copan region of Honduras. Honduras' temperate and tropical climates create famously sweet and robust coffees. Further, the cool weather in Copan encourages a delicate acidity in the cherries that's evident in COPROCAEL read more
In Nicaragua, Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples Sacaclí is a multi-service cooperative of small-scale vegetable and coffee farmers. Established in 1994, it now has more than 500 members in rural Jinotega. The cooperative offers services including production, technical assistance, coffee nursery management, financial services and commercialization. It also offers social programs such as scholarships for the children of producers and support read more
In 2014, an organized group of 100 Organic producers in Coban, Acatenango & Chimaltenango aligned to create ASPROGUATE (Asociación sostentible de productores de Guatemala). Nearby producers later joined the association, and in 2016 they opened central offices in San Martin, Jilotepeque. With a mission to manage social development among small read more
In Sumatra, Kokowagayo is a women-owned and women-managed coffee cooperative on the Aceh province. Kokowagayo has 567 farmer members from seven villages in the Bener Meriah districts. Kokowagayo is an abbreviation for Koperasi Kopi Wanita Gayo. The group has 18 women in leadership roles — a chairwoman and business manager, read more
In Peru, Central Cooperativas Agrarias Cafetaleras, or COCLA Ltda., is a second-degree cooperative, meaning it’s a larger representative of 21 smaller cooperatives. In total, it represents more than 3,500 coffee-farming families. COCLA was formed 53 years ago, on July 26, 1967, by a group of coffee farmers looking to secure read more
Colombia Sierra Nevada TAYRONACA Fairtrade Organic The Cesar department in Northern Colombia is a Spanish take on the Chimila indigenous word Chet-tzar or Zazare, meaning “calm water.” This is a reference to the Cesar River which extends through most of the department in this valley created by the Sierra Nevada de Santa read more
