Strong Women, Great Coffee

Did you know that the majority of the world’s coffee is grown by small farms and cooperatives, and that coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world next to oil? These two factors combine to create widespread abuse and exploitation of the people who grow, harvest and process most coffee. Harsh gender inequality, poverty, and abuse are rampant in the coffee producing regions of the world, especially for the 30% of small farmers who are women. Most women coffee producers have no rights, little income, and are raising families by themselves. To help support these women, we are proud to offer Peruvian Femenino certified organic fair-trade coffee. This exciting coffee variety is grown on woman-owned and operated farms along the Incan Trail in the Northern Andean Rainforest as part of the Café Femenino Project.

Founded in 2004, the Café Femenino Project now includes more than 1,500 women in Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru who work together to achieve empowerment, build supportive social networks, and earn decent incomes through the production and sale of their own fair-trade coffee. Let’s drink to social equality!