Café con Historia: López Urrea Family

by Michael Opitz | March 27, 2020 | COVID-19 | 0 Comments

At Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) we feel a strong responsibility in the current COVID-19 pandemic for both our beneficiaries and our staff. Smallholder coffee farmer families are specifically vulnerable in this situation. They lack access to information,...

by Jesko Johannsen | March 8, 2020 | Ethiopia, Evaluation, Gender | 0 Comments

Turuwark Zalalam Warkineh is Assistant Professor in the department of Adult Education and Community Development at the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences in Bahir Dar University (BDU), Ethiopia. She underwent a field study in the CAFE-project, HRNS...

by Gabriela Tyggum | March 5, 2020 | Coffee, coffee&climate, Honduras, Latin America | 0 Comments

Café con Historia recognizes the incredible work of coffee farming families taking part in our projects around the world!  María López, from Corquín, Honduras shares her story behind the coffee produced for the 4th Edition of Café con Historia!  This coffee promotes...

by Adrian Bolliger | February 24, 2020 | Coffee, Farmer Organization, Indonesia, Processing | 0 Comments

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 Joanna Furgiuele | February 4, 2020 | Coffee Kids, Youth | 0 Comments

This Blogpost was originally published in SCA 25  The youngest generation is now the largest generation on earth, but the average age of coffee farmers continues to increase. JOANNA FURGIUELE asks: Do we really understand why young people are leaving coffee, or are we...

by Guest Author | January 21, 2020 | Coffee, Coffee agronomy trainings, Evaluation, M&E, Uganda | 0 Comments

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 Abel Bisibana | January 7, 2020 | Diversification, Tanzania | 0 Comments

Grace Mbise and her husband are preparing their farm in west Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. But today, they are not working in their coffee fields. Grace grows both potatoes and coffee. “The cost of production for coffee and potatoes are almost the same”, she says. “But...

by Sarah Kenyi | December 2, 2019 | Alliance for Resilient Coffee, Climate, Uganda | 0 Comments

If you look beyond Stella’s frail physique you will see an abundance of infinite strength and determination in her eyes... In the year 2007, life struck Stella a devastating blow with the loss of her husband who was the family's main bread winner. In spite of the...

by Jesko Johannsen | November 12, 2019 | Coffee, Coffee Kids, Colombia, Hands-on, Honduras, Latin America, Youth | 0 Comments

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 | October 28, 2019 | Climate, Coffee | 0 Comments

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...