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The space we call home. A collective of our shared ideas, visions and accomplishments. Travel on our journey through the coffee fields of member owners to our cafés and beyond. This is where we can share our joys, our struggles, our ideas and passion for what we do each and everyday working for coffee farmers.
Choosing Pachamama Is Making a Difference
Pachamama Coffee’s model is unique. First of all because the farmers are the owners of Pachamama Coffee. This not only generates wealth for our families and our communities, but also provides dignity. We are the owners in the entire coffee chain, so it provides dignity for the farmer.
News
From the Ground Up: Farmer Owned Brands on the Rise
BY THALEON TREMAIN July-August 2011 First published in the Cooperative Grocer A growing category in grocery retail embraces farmer-ownership What do the following have in common:...
Pachamama's Coffee CSA Connects Coffee Lovers Straight to the Farm - New York Times
The farmer-owned cooperative Pachamama Coffee launched the world's first global C.S.A. (Community Support Agriculture) program last week. (Here's an article from the New York Times). The new web...
COCLA Co-op of Peru
The COCLA Cooperative of Quillabamba, Peru, is a leading Farmer-Owned and Fair Trade organization owned and governed by more than 8,000 small-scale family farmers. COCLA, a...
Video: Tour a Coffee Processing Facility in Huatusco, Mexico
The farmers cooperative La Union Regional de Huatusco in Mexico is an amazing place. Small-scale farmers organized to help themselves and their environment. And their organic coffee is first...
Video: Tadesse Meskela Knows Coffee
Tadesse Meskela of Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union in Ethiopia discusses specialty coffee in the region of Harar.
Prodecoop’s Youth Education Program “Estudiando Con Café” Excels In Nicaragua.
Pachamama Coffee Co-op’s founding member PRODECOOP in Nicaragua provides its farmers with social benefits, as documented in this short film produced by PRODECOOP.
Video: Tour the COCLA Cooperative of Peru
At Pachamama, the farmers own the company. This means better coffee for you, more money for farmers and a healthier environment for all. And it...
Interview with Raúl del Águila, Founding President of Pachamama
This interview was recorded in 2009 in Quillabamba, Peru by Olaf Hammelburg. Raúl del Águila is the general manager of the COCLA cooperative and the...
"Connecting Worlds: The Coffee Trail" by Olaf Hammelburg
“Connecting Worlds: The Coffee Trail” is the link between you and the people who produced your morning coffee. This book features the acclaimed photography and...
Traceable Coffee Technology Creates Direct Relationship
TraceableCoffee.org Allows Coffee Lovers to Tip Global Farmers for a Job Well Done Small-scale family farmers in the developing world produce 75% of the world's coffee supply,...
Video: Traditional Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony
This beautiful video of a traditional coffee ceremony in Ethiopia was filmed by Olaf Hammelburg for TraceableCoffee.org, a project of Pachamama Coffee Cooperative and the Oromia Coffee Farmers...
Human Rights Award Winner: Pachamama's President Raúl Del Águila
Congratulations to Raúl del Águila, co-founder of Pachamama Coffee Cooperative. International Honoree Raúl del Águila is a Peruvian Fair Trade pioneer distinguished for his work as...
Video: Coffee's Journey From Ethiopia to You
Pachamama's video documenting the path of a coffee bean grown in Ethiopia and consumed in Europe.
Video: Tadesse Meskela Discusses the Value of Farmer Ownership
Thanks to Olaf Hammelburg of Connecting Worlds for his fine work in Ethiopia, documenting the production of organic coffee at Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union...