by Jesko Johannsen | May 9, 2018 | Podcast, Sustainability
Our team member Jan von Enden got the opportunity to talk about Sustainability in the coffee sector in the “Sustainability Dialogues”-Podcast produced by the Sustainable Agriculture Network – SAN. Topics were the challenges and trends of the coffee...
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 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...
by Jesko Johannsen | Jan 31, 2018 | Hands-on, Vietnam, Water
Hands-On in Tanzania Figures Improving The Lives of Young Coffee Farmers For Bui Ngoc Vinh it is all about water. And that doesn’t make his work as irrigation engineer for HRNS in Vietnam always easy: “As you know, water resources are becoming increasingly scarce, so...
by Jesko Johannsen | Jan 22, 2018 | Coffee, Colombia, Farmer Organization, Gender, Origin
Without women there would be no coffee. All too often we forget their role in coffee production. They are present in almost 100% of the farms and active in the different production processes. But their participation in decision-making, in participation in training...
