by Adrian Bolliger | Feb 24, 2020 | Coffee, Farmer Organization, Indonesia, Processing
Radiating with determination and confidence, 28-year old coffee farmer Pak Eka Feri Anggrianwan, or ‘Pak Feri’ as he is generally known by his peers, carefully feels the surface of the harvested coffee cherries drying in the solar drier he constructed just one month...
by HRNS Admin | Jan 21, 2020 | Coffee, Coffee agronomy trainings, Evaluation, M&E, Uganda
In Uganda, it’s estimated that over 10 million people depend on coffee for their livelihood, but here, productivity and coffee yields are among the lowest in the world. For 12 years, Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) has implemented projects that train smallholder...
by Jesko Johannsen | Nov 12, 2019 | Coffee, Coffee Kids, Colombia, Hands-on, Honduras, Latin America, Youth
The fog was heavy, and the clouds were thick as we wound our way up the dirt road in the early morning on the outskirts of the municipality of Dos Quebradas, Risaralda, Colombia. The ground was soaked from rain the night before, and even though our fingers were...
by Christian Bunn | Oct 28, 2019 | Climate, Coffee
At the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) we believe that adaptation to climate change should not be driven by a long series of bitter experiences of failed harvests. This is why we are part of the Feed the Future Alliance for Resilient Coffee, a...
by Abigail Bok | Sep 5, 2019 | Alliance for Resilient Coffee, Climate, Coffee
The saw makes a grinding sound as Albert, a young Ugandan agronomist, maneuvers it back and forth slowly, cutting through the trunk of the coffee tree. His colleague Ambrose stands next to him, bracing the tree and readying himself to carefully lower it to the ground...
by Gabriela Tyggum | Jun 24, 2019 | Alliance for Resilient Coffee, Climate, Coffee, Sustainability, Trifinio Region
Aida Escolán, originally from the capital city of Tegucigalpa, moved to rural Ocotepeque eight years ago to take over her grandfather’s coffee farm. The petite woman jumping down from the driver’s seat of her dusty off-road pickup is an ironic scene, but Aida’s...