In 2010, the owners of Machare Estates came to Let's Talk Coffee®/Africa with hopes of connecting in a new buyer relationship. Christy Thorns, green...
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Honduran Beneficio Santa Rosa Coffees Trainings Impacting Quality
Throughout the years, Honduras has struggled with a reputation as an unreliable region for sourcing specialty coffee. In recent years however, local...
Rwandan Multi-Sector Investment Group Partners with Coffee Business Center
MIG, or Multi-Sector Investment Group, is a company started in 2004 by the Rwandan government to contribute to the development of the region. The...
Mzuzu Union Co-op Champions Smallholder Farming in Malawi
Although the majority of East African coffee is produced by smallholder farms, in Malawi 95% of coffee is grown on large estates. So as the only...
Expanding Sustainable Harvest’s East African Coffee Supply
In May, Boss and Thangale, agronomists based out of our Tanzania offices, ventured to three East African countries – Malawi, Rwanda, and Burundi – in...
Emilio Lopez Presents Varietal and Fermentation Experiments
The coffee industry is rife with commentary on raising coffee up to the level of wine, where the final product sells for hundreds of dollars and tiny...
Exploring the World's Southernmost Coffee Region
When I first heard the name “Parana’s Pioneer North” (Norte Pioneiro do Paraná), I thought, why exactly can a state call it self a pioneer,...
Coffee Market Q&A with Jorge Cuevas
March’s interview with Sustainable Harvest’s® Director of Trade Jorge Cuevas touched on the rising pressure on both the producer and roaster sides of...
Risk Management Course Empowers Coffee Producers
The importance of protecting their coffee sank in with the Peruvian co-op managers when Albert Scalla posed this series of questions:
Cupping and Building Relationships in Nicaragua
On Monday, as I drove north through Nicaragua to Las Segovias, past towns with roadside stands selling colorful hammocks, I recalled an email that I...