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“Coffee and Climate” project launched to improve Peru’s coffee production
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The “Coffee and Climate” project promotes climate-smart agriculture adapting coffee crop management to climate change, from the perspective of the value chain. This initiative...
Nestlé investment helps Ethiopia launch coffee traceability system
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Nestlé and its industry partners have invested CHF 1.3 million (USD 1.3 million) in a new food traceability system in Ethiopia. The initiative is...
NDSU agronomist helping improve Uganda’s coffee production
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A North Dakota State University crop production expert has been helping Ugandan farmers find ways to increase their country’s coffee production. “Coffee is a...
8TH MARCH – Happy Women’s Day to all Women in Coffee
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The coffee world owes a lot to women. In smallholder coffee farms, women do most of the productive work. However, the huge contribution they make...
GUATEMALA – A family weathers the coffee rust crisis
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GUATEMALA CITY – Idalia López and Moisés Ramírez are Guatemalan smallholder farmers whose livelihoods have been devastated by Coffee Rust. Like millions of other Central...
COOPERATION – FMO signs US$75 mln facility for Ecom
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FMO has signed a USD 75 mln senior syndicated facility for Ecom Agroindustrial, the Switzerland based holding company for the Ecom Group, one of...
RESEARCH – High-end coffee and smallholding growers in Guatemala
Edward Fischer and Bart Victor of Vanderbilt University have recently published an article in the Latin American Research Review on High-End Coffee and Smallholding...
AFRICA – Liberia launches first post-war cocoa/coffee project
MONROVIA – The first post-war cocoa and coffee project that will improve the livelihood of smallholders farmers has been launched in Vahun, Lofa County,...