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COVID-19 UPDATESAt Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) we feel a strong responsibility in the current COVID-19 pandemic for both our beneficiaries and our staff. We react with additional commitment, flexibility and adaptation to this special situation.
Webinar: United by Change
View the recording! Additional Resources: Read more about our key findings by downloading our two flyers here: Blogpost: How to address COVID-19 in smallholder communities A blogpost from our HRNS Managing Director: Michael Opitz Webinar Questions & Answers ...
United by Change: How to address COVID-19 in smallholder communities
For smallholder coffee farmer families, poverty and financial hardship were on the rise even before the pandemic started. And the situation now got worse in many places with COVID-19. Coffee prices are low, food is more expensive, income is affected, farm management...
COVID-19 shows smallholder families` readiness for increased digital trainings
During the Coronavirus pandemic, Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) increased the use of digital support to smallholder coffee farmer families in project regions. This support was not only through phone calls. Digital training sessions were conducted, training videos...
Addressing the effects of COVID-19 on coffee farmers in Tanzania
To adapt to the global Coronavirus pandemic, Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) has adjusted our approach to the Building Coffee Farmers Alliance Phase II project in Tanzania which is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA),...
HRNS warns of COVID-19 long-term effects for smallholder families in coffee regions
The Coronavirus pandemic contributes to existing problems, smallholder coffee farmer families are already facing, and poses a serious threat to household development plans, food security, business and income. This is a key finding from a survey, conducted by Hanns R....
Nuestra Respuesta al COVID-19 en Centroamérica: 3 áreas de enfoque
Han pasado más de 100 días bajo cuarentena y estrictas restricciones de movilidad. Mientras muchos países europeos comienzan a levantar algunas medidas de contención, los casos apenas comienzan a alcanzar su pico más alto en Centroamérica. Los sistemas de salud son...
Responding to COVID-19 in Central America: 3 underlying areas
It’s been more than 100 days under quarantine and strict mobility restrictions. As many European countries start to lift coronavirus containment measures, cases are just starting to reach the highest peak in Central America. Health systems are vulnerable, and...
Integrating Gender into Climate Change Interventions
The effects of climate change such as prolonged droughts and unreliable weather patterns adversely impact smallholder coffee growing farmers in Uganda. To mitigate this, the three active Feed the Future Alliance for Resilient Coffee (ARC) consortium partners in the...
Finding Solutions to the Effects of COVID-19 on Ethiopian Farmers
The Coronavirus global pandemic is already having adverse effects on many nation’s economies and Ethiopia is no exception. In an effort to limit economic harm while curbing the spread of the virus, the Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency. Thereafter,...
Global Connection in Times of Social Distancing
Recognizing that the global pandemic will continue to influence the lives of these families for months to come, we wanted to share our immediate response to this situation as well as the importance of long-term thinking. In mid-May we started a four-week miniseries on...
HRNS do Brasil and the power of partnerships in the COVID-19 crisis
The global Coronavirus pandemic is increasingly affecting the livelihood of millions of smallholder farming families in coffee producing regions. With more than half a million cases up to date, Brazil has the second-highest number of cases worldwide. For Hanns R....
Battling climate change using creative and cost-effective methods in Uganda
As a child, Ivan Ssembajwe a young coffee farmer from the plush countryside of Luwero, Uganda, would keenly watch his grandmother and mother tiling the land day in and day out to grow crops for sustenance and income. With every changing season and passing year, Ivan’s...
Innovation in Coffee Communities: Webinar 3
View the recording! Building resiliency in the face of a changing climate Subscribe Now For Upcoming Webinars: Webinar #4: Tuesday, June 9: 9am PDT/ 12pm EDT/ 6pm CEST/ 7pm EAT Creating strong and thriving farmer organizations Questions? Email us in advance if you...
Innovation in Coffee Communities: Webinar 2
View the recording! Exploring gender inclusion within farming families and organizationsSubscribe Now For Upcoming Webinars: Webinar #3: Tuesday, June 2: 9am PDT/ 12pm EDT/ 6pm CEST/ 7pm EAT Building resiliency in the face of a changing climate Webinar #4: Tuesday,...
Exploiting the role of Communication for Development during COVID-19
Two important elements in the work of Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) are proximity and collaboration. Proximity to farmer communities came to a sudden stop due to the Coronavirus pandemic and collaboration with partners (which usually also takes place with...
Innovation in Coffee Communities: Webinar 1
View the recording! Sparking the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of youth Subscribe Now For Upcoming Webinars: Webinar #2: Tuesday, May 26: 9am PDT/ 12pm EDT/ 6pm CEST/ 7pm EAT Exploring gender inclusion within farming families and organizations Webinar #3:...
Bringing support to smallholder families in Central America amid COVID-19
“The majority of our work with smallholder farming families usually takes place in coffee farms. In the wake of the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Central America and movement restrictions established by the government, we were initially concerned about no longer being...
HRNS Uganda supports smallholder coffee farmer families despite the Coronavirus Pandemic
Commitment, flexibility, innovation. During this Coronavirus pandemic, all of us who work in agriculture sustainability need to strengthen our ongoing support to smallholder coffee farming families by being flexible and innovative in order to adapt to the challenges...
Innovation in Coffee Communities
Bringing field experiences to your home office with weekly webinars. Join us for a weekly webinar every Tuesday (9am PDT/ 12pm EDT/ 6pm CEST/ 7pm EAT) starting May 19, to dig into what it takes for coffee communities to thrive. Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) is...
COVID-19: We will handle this together
Young Coffee Farmers need your support during this SARS-COV-2 Pandemic. These are unprecedented times. The global disruption caused by the spreading of COVID-19 is affecting every aspect of our lives. At Coffee Kids we feel a strong responsibility for our teams on the...
COVID-19: How HRNS informs coffee communities and remains committed during this crisis
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,...
Information materials on preventing the further spreading of the novel Coronavirus were produced in an early stage by HRNS and are available for download:
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Our social media channels keep you abreast about COVID-19 updates from the field.
Introducing Cosecha!
An opportunity for you look within HRNS and explore the different activities currently taking place in Central America! We hope these news, updates and stories inspire you, as they continue to inspire us!
www.hrnstiftung.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Cosecha-1-Edition.pdf
La semana pasada tuvimos el gusto de recibir a nuestro aliado Catholic Relief Services en español en Huehuetenango, Guatemala! Intercambiamos ideas sobre nuestro proyecto en conjunto y compartimos las maneras en que estamos impulsando la implementación de buenas prácticas agrícolas para fortalecer la resiliencia al cambio climático de pequeñas familias agricultoras en la región.
Last week we welcomed our partner Catholic Relief Services to visit our joint project areas and activities in Huehuetenango, Guatemala! We had a wonderful exchange of ideas on different activities taking place to strengthen smallholder’s resilience to climate change and promote the implementation of good agricultural practices in the region.
Our hearts go out to the hundreds of thousands of people and smallholder farming families in Central America who’ve been severely hit by Hurricane Eta. We are deeply concerned by their wellbeing and remain committed to respond and assist their current needs.
Daily Coffee News is sharing different fundraising efforts we can all be a part of! Everything helps!
Ways to support: dailycoffeenews.com/2020/11/13/support-hurricane-eta-relief-efforts-in-central-america-and-mexico...
Support Hurricane Eta Relief Efforts in Central America and Mexico [Updated]
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[Update – Tuesday, Nov. 17: At 5:05 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Nov. 17, a separate hurricane, Hurricane Iota, made landfall as a category 4 storm just 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta made land…Some amazing storytelling from the ground coming up. Who might be able to tell the story of Ugandan Youth better then Ugandan Youth.
Big up team up Uganda
Finalmente en la oficina de Guatemala:
¡Nuestra Teoría de Cambio!
La pueden descargar en español aquí: www.hrnstiftung.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Theory_Of_Change_Spanish.pdf
De que se trata??
Join us tomorrow, November 16, at 15:00 (GMT-3) for Cecafé - Brazilian Coffee Exporters Council's live discussion webinar on Improving the Communication and Promotion of Brazilian Coffee Through Sustainability!
Our Managing Director, Michael Opitz will be joining the conversation as a panelist! Visit the links below to view the live broadcast. We hope you can make it!
Website: www.cecafe.com.br
Youtube Channel: bit.ly/2NNi0Ni
Hundreds of smallholder families in Honduras and Guatemala, already fighting back against COVID-19, face a new wave of despair after Hurricane Eta pummeled Central America. Many of the smallholder families we work with have lost their homes and harvests, making them extremely vulnerable during this time.
We are committed to help smallholder families affected by this tragedy and remain active to asses their urgent needs. Read our latest blogpost to learn more about our next steps!
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Destruction and uncertainty hit smallholder communities in Honduras and Guatemala after Hurricane Eta by Gabriela Tyggum | Nov 13, 2020 | Central America | 0 comments“On Wednesday evening, strong wa...La semana pasada tuvimos el gusto de realizar una visita a campo junto a nuestro aliado Exportadora de Cafe UNEX en Huehuetenango, Guatemala! Como parte de nuestro proyecto en conjunto, estamos facilitando capacitaciones a familias de pequeños agricultores en temas de agricultura climáticamente inteligente y estableciendo parcelas demostrativas!
Last week we welcomed our partner Exportadora de Cafe UNEX to visit our joint project areas and activities in Huehuetenango, Guatemala! As part of our project, smallholder farming families are receiving trainings on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and setting up demonstration plots to test new practices!
HRNS is happy to announce the new TeamUp Uganda project website: www.teamupug.org!
We've partnered with Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung - DSW, Siemens-Stiftung, Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ), Action 4 Health Uganda and Whave Solutions to improve the livelihoods of over 50,000 #youth in #MITYANA district by building their capacity in agronomy and business development while also focusing on life and social skills such as sexual reproductive health and rights and sanitation and hygiene.
Visit our new website to learn more about our collaborative interventions! #teamupuganda #youngpeople #agriculture #health #water
Wawooo so much respect
They say teamwork makes the dream work and the Feed the Future Alliance for Resilient Coffee project in Uganda has proved this! The project which was funded by USAID - US Agency for International Development brought together seven leading international organizations to collectively build the climate resilience of the Ugandan coffee supply chain.
Now that the four-year project has come to an end, the ARC partners endeavor to share the learnings, outcomes and tools developed in the project with the Ugandan coffee sector. Watch this video to learn about the project’s milestones in Uganda!
Getting ready for the upcoming 2020-2021 harvest!
As part our Coffee Collection Center project with our partner Tim Hortons, 12 solar dryers have been fully established by farmer organizations in Ocotepeque and Copán, Honduras!
Each solar dryers has the capacity to dry up to 100 bags of 46 kg of dry parchment. Other activities within this project include setting up storage rooms, weighing scales and moister testers for farmer organizations in the region.
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Our Climate-Smart Coffee and Responsible Sourcing project in Guatemala reached almost twice as many smallholders than expected!!
Thank you SAFE Platform for sharing such meaningful insights and supporting us in making coffee systems more resilient for smallholder farmers!
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Little research about the effects of coffee cooperatives on the welfare of smallholder farmer families has been done so far. At the same time they are increasingly present in the coffee industry. Timna Eckschmidt is a student from Kühne Logistics University KLU in Hamburg and researched for her master’s degree in Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management within HRNS’ work with coffee cooperatives in Indonesia about these effects. She is sharing, what she found out.
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Supply chain modeling and the impact of coffee cooperatives on farmers’ livelihood by Timna Eckschmidt | Oct 21, 2020 | Academic research, Farmer Organization, Indonesia | 0 commentsTimna Eckschmidt...#WorldFoodDay
COVID-19 has further compromised families’ ability to ensure they have access to nutritious food supporting an active, healthy life. It’s time to build back better and make our food systems more resilient!
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Our food security strategy promotes short- and long-term crop diversification, establishment of family gardens and livestock production to ensure farming families have access to nutritious crops that meet their dietary needs.
#WorldFoodDay
Together we can work towards making food systems more resilient so they can withstand climate threats, deliver balanced and sustainable diets for all, and decent livelihoods for smallholder families worldwide!
Feed the Future's Alliance for Resilient Coffee (ARC) has officially phased out! After four years of intensive project work, ARC proved that the global coffee supply chain can become climate-smart and families can be empowered to mitigate climate threats.
In Central America, ARC played a vital role in coffee communities with climate-smart agriculture. Learn more about ARC’s milestones in Guatemala and Honduras by watching the video below!
Happy #InternationalCoffeeDay!
Let’s come together as part of the global coffee community and celebrate coffee farmers producing great coffee around the world. At HRNS, we are committed to supporting smallholder families to take a proactive role in shaping their lives in an informed and self-determined way.
For the #futureofcoffee and Because Coffee Farmers Deserve Prosperity. There’s still a lot of work ahead!
On #InternationalCoffeeDay, we celebrate smallholder farming families around the world and great partnerships that make our work possible.
Our partnership with The J.M. Smucker Co. supports the strengthening of the Smallholder Robusta Sector in Sumatra, Indonesia. In phase 1 of the project, we’ve supported 7,780 smallholder farmers! Learn More:
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Celebrating the Heart of the Coffee Supply Chain
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Celebrating the Heart of the Coffee Supply ChainDurante los cuatro años del proyecto, La Alianza para la Resiliencia del Café (ARC) ha demostrado que la cadena de valor del café si puede avanzar hacia la agricultura climáticamente inteligente y que las familias pueden ser empedradas para reducir los impactos climáticos.
Ya que ARC estará finalizando a finales de Septiembre 2020, es hora de establecer los próximos pasos. Lea el comunicado de prensa y acceda a los resultados del proyecto aquí:
ARC fue financiado por USAID - US Agency for International Development Como part de la initiative de seguridad alimentary, Feed the Future. El consortia se conformó for World Coffee Research
Root Capital Conservation International CIAT International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
Sustainable Food Lab
After four years of intensive project work, The Alliance for Resilient Coffee (ARC), has proved that the global coffee supply chain can become climate-smart and families can be empowered to mitigate climate threats!! As the ARC consortium is phasing out end of September 2020, it is time for the next steps.
Read the full press release and access project results below!
ARC is funded by USAID - US Agency for International Development and is part of U.S. Government's Food Security Initiative, Feed the Future. It is comprised of World Coffee Research Root Capital Conservation International CIAT International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Sustainable Food Lab
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Climate-Smart Coffee is possible – The Alliance for Resilient Coffee has proved it. by Gabriela Tyggum | Sep 24, 2020 | Alliance for Resilient Coffee | 0 commentsDuring four years of intensive in-th...
Introducing Cosecha! An opportunity for you look within @HRNStiftung and explore the different activities currently taking place in #CentralAmerica! We hope these news, updates and stories inspire you, as they continue to inspire us!
https://www.hrnstiftung.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Cosecha-1-Edition.pdf
Yesterday, for the first time our #CSO partners meeting took place in a virtual setting. Many thanks for the exchange & update on the precautionary #COVID19Ethiopia 🇪🇹
measures implemented by our partners, incl. @careAustria @HRNStiftung @LFDWdach @roteskreuzat
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@TeamUpUG youth under partners @action4hU @HRNStiftung @Whave_Solutions @SiemensStiftung @dsw_de @BMZ_Bund commemorated #16daysofactivismagainstSGBV #OrangeTheWorld 25.11.20 in Bulera Sub County. #COVID19 has led to an increase in #SGBV in families.Crucial sensitization is urgent
4Behind the scenes look at first Vlog production on 2 youth's way of life, & impact on their livelihoods, health & WASH through the eyes of @SawaWorld youth reporter @HappilyShivan
@TeamUpUG partners @action4hU @HRNStiftung @Whave_Solutions @SiemensStiftung @dsw_de @BMZ_Bund
Destruction and uncertainty hit smallholder communities in #Honduras and #Guatemala after #HurricaneEta.
@HRNStiftung is committed to help smallholder families affected by this tragedy and remains active to asses their urgent needs.
https://www.hrnstiftung.org/destruction-and-uncertainty-hit-smallholder-communities-in-honduras-and-guatemala-after-hurricane-eta/
@TeamUpUG partners @action4hU @HRNStiftung @Whave_Solutions @SiemensStiftung @dsw_de @BMZ_Bund use a solution based approach driven by youth to improve their livelihoods. Using diverse methods of economic development in Agriculture, Water & Health.
4Mo: http://www.teamupug.org
Last week we welcomed our partner UNEX to visit our joint project areas and activities in Huehuetenango, #Guatemala. As part of our project, smallholder farming families are receiving trainings on climate-smart agriculture and setting up demonstration plots!
#HRNS #coffee
Inclusion of People Living with Disability (PWD) at all levels Inclusive implementation is part of the training given to @TeamUpUG partners @action4hU @HRNStiftung @Whave_Solutions @SiemensStiftung @dsw_de @BMZ_Bund staff members in Mityana. Ensuring that no one is left behind.
2Our Climate-Smart Coffee and Responsible Sourcing project in Guatemala reached almost twice as many smallholders than expected!!
Thank you @safe_platform for sharing such meaningful insights and supporting us in making coffee systems more resilient for smallholder farmers!
Timna Eckschmidt from @THE_KLU did her research about the effects of coffee cooperatives on the welfare of smallholder farmer families within @HRNStiftung work with coffee cooperatives in Indonesia. She is sharing, what she found out. https://www.hrnstiftung.org/supply-chain-modeling-and-the-impact-of-coffee-cooperatives-on-farmers-livelihood/
Building Climate Resilience in the Ugandan Coffee Sector https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FZxv05ZxSvOiXBFqGYYU4w?t=1603112875760 . Register and join the conversation. @HRNStiftung @Olam @CoffeeUganda @UCF_UG @africancoffees
#WorldFoodDay
#COVID19 has compromised families’ ability to ensure balanced diets. It’s time to build back better and make our food systems more resilient! Our food security strategy promotes crop diversification, establishment of family gardens and livestock production!
We're proud to have been part of the Alliance for Resilient Coffee with our partners @HRNStiftung, @WCoffeeResearch, @IITA_CGIAR, @ConservationOrg, @RootCapital and CIAT. Watch the video below to learn about our work throughout the last few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txIWpisiQO0