Mar 2, 2022 | Event, News Article
Join our webinar! Stop hitting snooze! The alarm clock is ringing! Join us on Wednesday, March 30, at 3:00 p.m. CEST for our webinar: “Missed Wake-Up Call: The Coffee Industry and the Impacts of Climate Change”. The impacts of climate change on coffee...
Feb 24, 2022 | News Article, Tanzania, Uganda
Climate change is putting a strain on coffee production and the greatest impact is faced by smallholder farming families who depend on the lucrative cash crop for their livelihoods. Frankly, it is women, more than men, who are at the center of the struggle. This is...
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 22, 2021 | News Article
If used correctly and safely, agrochemicals can prevent and control pests, diseases, and weeds to greatly improve the harvests of coffee farmers. However, during spraying, only a small amount of the toxic chemicals reaches the targeted pests, diseases, and weeds. The...
