Everyone’s Responsible for our Morning Coffee

Everyone’s Responsible for our Morning Coffee

For the 12.4 million smallholder coffee farmer families across the globe, climate change is already a real threat to their economic existence. Nevertheless, adapted cultivation techniques and access to new technologies could make them supporters in the fight to...
Kitchen Thoughts on Gender Mainstreaming

Kitchen Thoughts on Gender Mainstreaming

Johannes Thoma (26), Executive Management Assistant at implementing partner Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung recently visited Tanzania to learn more about the gender component of c&c. “I have seen women walking 10 hours to get water! “, I grumbled as I lifted myself out...
Brewing up Climate Resilience in the Coffee Sector

Brewing up Climate Resilience in the Coffee Sector

Baristas, roasters and coffee machine producers are crowding around latest innovations during the Specialty Coffee Associations “World of Coffee 2019” in Berlin – Europe’s biggest Specialty Coffee Exhibition. Powerful cheering from the audiences of the World Barista...
From Italy to Guatemala, Lavazza visits Chiquimula

From Italy to Guatemala, Lavazza visits Chiquimula

“I became more and more confident with myself and the role I have within the organization as a woman” tells Rina Mejia. Rina is the secretary of the gender committee for the Coffee Cooperative COCAFELOL in Ocotepeque, Honduras. As participant of the gender...
A community takes care of its own water supply

A community takes care of its own water supply

The community of Idugumbi in rural Mbeya, Tanzania had faced the challenges of declining coffee yields due to the growing scarcity of water for a long time. The only available water source that was shared by 4 villages: Idugumbi, Ihombe, Iwala and Utengule, was not...