Feb 21, 2022 | News Article
At the age of 7, Glenda Fuentes remembers waking up to the sound of the rooster, stepping out of bed, and neither of her parents being home. She is one of many women in coffee production. They had already left the house at quarter past 5 to pick coffee in the...
Dec 12, 2021 | News Article
Dulce Posadas (27) is the daughter of a smallholder coffee farming family, who got involved in the local group of the initiative for coffee&climate (c&c) in Honduras, implemented by Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS). With the help of the initiative, she learned...
Dec 1, 2021 | News Article
Our webinar, “Unspoken Realities: About the safe use and handling of agrochemicals” is now online! During our webinar, Lilian Törnqvist, Senior Advisor at the Swedish Chemicals Agency (KEMI), and Thomas Alveteg, Senior Program Specialist at the Swedish International...
Nov 15, 2021 | News Article
The misuse of agrochemicals in coffee production is a reality. A reality many people know exists, but one that is not getting enough attention and awareness. Our last article explored some of the ways smallholder coffee farmers are misusing, handling, storing, and...
Oct 31, 2021 | News Article
When we talk about coffee production, we talk about the climate crisis, the matters of women and youth, the productivity and quality of crops, and the livelihood of smallholder farming families. But talking about all these very important topics, we oftentimes neglect...
