Improving viability of small farms for future generations in El Salvador
Behind many small coffee farms lies a constant balancing act between quality, climate pressure, rising costs and long-term survival.
Since 2017, we’ve worked alongside exporter Caravela and the Chelazos producer group in La Palma, El Salvador to support María Zoila Piñeda and her small two-hectare farm, Finca Margarita.
What began as a conversation around coffee quality became a long-term partnership focused on helping create more stability, resilience and confidence in the future of the farm itself.
Building the next generation of coffee farmers in Rwanda
For many of the people growing it, coffee no longer feels capable of supporting the kind of future younger generations want to stay for.
In Nyamasheke, Western Rwanda, many young people were leaving rural communities in search of more stable work elsewhere.
In 2021, alongside export partner Tropic Coffee and wholesale partner Baltzersens, we helped launch a long-term project focused on helping coffee feel worth building a future around again.
What began with 20 young people and 20,000 coffee trees has continued to grow year after year.
Helping coffee remain a livelihood in Timor-Leste
Most of us experience coffee as part of everyday life. A morning routine. A catch-up with friends. Something comforting, familiar and easy to take for granted.
For many families in Timor-Leste, coffee is something else entirely. In spite of the country being one of the world’s most oil-dependent economies, production of fossil fuels has now halted and the entire nation faces a major economic transition.
Coffee is the second-largest source of income yet around half of coffee-farming families live below the poverty line. Productivity is a core issue: aging trees, poor nutrition, and degraded soils mean farms produce only around 20% of the global average, limiting income, stability and the long term opportunity many families need.