by Jan von Enden | Feb 27, 2018 | Coffee, Sustainability
It is a bit cliche to say that we learn the most from our failures. But, of course, like most cliches, we repeat it because it is true. And if we learn the most from our failures, and it is critical to learn from each other, then by all rights we need to be sharing... by Jesko Johannsen | Feb 27, 2018 | Origin, Uganda, Youth
“I dropped out of school because I couldn’t pay the tuition fees at the age of 18”, remembers Ruth “I then started picking coffee as farmworker to earn some money.” Ruth is now 25 years old and lives in Mityana, Uganda. Her aim has been to take a tailoring course in... by Jan von Enden | Feb 8, 2018 | Coffee, Origin, Sustainability
I regularly find myself in discussions with partners on “overhead” when planning sustainability coffee projects. It’s an important conversation, but it often starts with a fundamental mistake—we assume projects with low overhead are “efficient.” But, in the words of... by Alisher Sharipau | Feb 8, 2018 | Coffee, Conference, Indonesia, South-South exchange, Vietnam
The official visit of the OKU Selatan District’s governor Mr. Popo Ali and his associates to Dak Lak province has been organized and hosted by Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung in November 2017 as a part of South-South exchange initiative. The visit of the Indonesian... by Jesko Johannsen | Feb 2, 2018 | Coffee, Tanzania
A coffee plant in a Hamburg office building: Our team member Hermann Kouassi from Ivory Coast is well surprised; “It is very good to see it growing even here. But we have better cherries”, he smiles. Hermann is visiting us at Headquarters in Hamburg to exchange work...
