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Coffee in Antioquia, Colombia

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  • The leaf of a coffee plant with leaf rust infection (la roya in Spanish). La roya is responsible for massive losses in coffee in some areas. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Anserma on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • Coffee husks are used at the Anserma coop as fuel for the drying machinery in the mill. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Anserma on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • Drying coffee flows off a conveyor belt at the Anserma coop mill in Caldas, Colombia. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Anserma on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • Jessica Loren López, 21, from El Poblado, is the daughter of coffee farmer and has trained as a coffee taster and now works in the Anserma Coop lab. Coffee from her father's farm has come into the lab and she is testing it. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Anserma on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • David Molina, tests coffee in the Anserma coffee lab, Caldas, Colombia. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Anserma on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • David Molina, tests coffee in the Anserma coffee lab, Caldas, Colombia. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Anserma on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • Coffee is delivered to the Anserma Coop, Caldas, Colombia. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Anserma on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • Rogelio Gallego on top of a coffee silo at Trillacoop, a Fairtrade-certified Colombian coffee processor.
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  • Juan Carlos Torres working at the Anserma coffee coop, Caldas, Colombia. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Anserma on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • Rogelio Gallego climbs a ladder to the top of a coffee silo at Trillacoop, a Fairtrade-certified Colombian coffee processor.
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  • Freddy holds a handful of freshly-picked coffee cherries. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Manizales on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • Citrus trees on a hillside in Caldas, Colombia
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  • Freddy Aguirre holds a handful of freshly-picked coffee cherries. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Manizales on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • Rebecca Clopath inspects machinery and silos at the Cooperativa de Caficultores de Manizales in Colombia. These silos hold enough coffee for hundreds of millions of cups of coffee. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Manizales on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • Luis Anibal Vera, coffee farmer at home in his garden. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Manizales on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • A worker stands atop a pier of coffee sacks at the warehouse of Cooperativa de Caficultores de Manizales.
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  • Luis Anibal Vera and Freddy Aguirre weigh the coffee they have picked during the day in Caldas, Colombia. Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Manizales on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • Yuliana Cardona, 21, left, is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
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Yuliana lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
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This is Yuliana at the Universtiy of Antioquia, South East Section in the town of Andes.
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  • Max Havelaar Switzerland works with Colombian coffee producer Cooperativa de Caficultores de Manizales on Fairtrade-certified coffee production.
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  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.
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  • An Andes Coop member pours red coffee berries into a manual depulping machine in a village near the town of Andes. While much of the depulping is still done by hand, or by small machines, the coop has invested millions to build a state-of-the-art processing mill that takes coffee in berries, instead of coffee processed by hand. This will allow the coop to closely control quality and improve profits by producing more high-quality coffee.
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  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.
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  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia
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  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia
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  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia, here some are intercropped with bananas, partly for shade and partly to have another crop from the same land. Currenty the price for bananas on the market is so low that small-scale banana production is not economically viable as a business, but much of the bananas are consumed locally.
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  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia, here some are intercropped with bananas, partly for shade and partly to have another crop from the same land. Currenty the price for bananas on the market is so low that small-scale banana production is not economically viable as a business, but much of the bananas are consumed locally.
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  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia
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  • Yuliana Cardona, 21 lives on the high mountain slopes of San Pedro Abajo, Santa Rita in Antioquia, Colombia.<br />
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Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
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Yuliana's father is one of 3,500 members of the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.  <br />
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Here Yuliana rakes over coffee that is drying on the roof of her house.
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  • Yuliana Cardona pushes back the sliding roof cover on her house to expose coffee that is drying.<br />
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Yuliana Cardona, 21 lives on the high mountain slopes of San Pedro Abajo, Santa Rita in Antioquia, Colombia.<br />
<br />
Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana's father is one of 3,500 members of the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.
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  • Yuliana Cardona, 21 lives on the high mountain slopes of San Pedro Abajo, Santa Rita in Antioquia, Colombia.<br />
<br />
Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana's father is one of 3,500 members of the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.  <br />
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Here Yuliana is picking the earliest ripe coffee cherries on her farm.
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  • Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
<br />
Here Yuliana is picking the earliest ripe coffee cherries on her farm.
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  • Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
<br />
Here Yuliana is picking the earliest ripe coffee cherries on her farm.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
<br />
Here Yuliana is picking the earliest ripe coffee cherries on her farm.
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  • Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
<br />
Here Yuliana is picking the earliest ripe coffee cherries on her farm.
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  • Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
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Here Yuliana loads her mule with two heavy coffee sacks.
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  • Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
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Here Yuliana keep her mule from bolting while two heavy coffee sacks are tied up on its back.
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  • Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
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Here Yuliana guides her mule with two coffee sacks ready for processing.
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  • Yuliana is one of 950 students who have been subsidised with the Fairtrade Premium through the Andes Coop to study at university. She is studying for a degree in agriculture. So far, the Andes coffee-producing coop has spent $1.5 million on the programme.<br />
<br />
Yuliana lives on a farm about an hour's walk from the town of Andes where the coop is headquartered. Her father is one of 3,500 members aof the coop. Any coop member, their partner or children can take part in the superior education programme.<br />
<br />
Here Yuliana guides her mule with two coffee sacks ready for processing.
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  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
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Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
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Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
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  • Maria Isabel Escobar López, 12, daughter of coffee farmer and Andes coop member Germán Escobar, travels to Miguel Valencia school in Antioquia, Colombia on a 'chiva' bus that are typical in the region. Using the Fairtrade premium, over 3,500 school kits including a rucksack, exercise books and pens are given to the children of coop members each year.
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  • In a coffee cupping session in the Andes Coop, a batch of coffee is roasted and ready to be prepared for a tasting session.<br />
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The coffee cupping is an essential process to identify any defects in coffee and to make sure that the coffee properties are correctly identified to maximise the price it can achieve on the market.<br />
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Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
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  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
<br />
Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
<br />
Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
<br />
Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
<br />
Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
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  • in Jardin, coffee farmers stand on the back of a truck in Antioquia.
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  • Alexander Contreras is one of the Andes Coop's coffee cuppers. He is the son of a coop member and coffee farmer and has studied and trained for the job over a period of years. A good cupper is essential for rooting out any defects in coffee and for identifying special coffees with valuable profiles, making sure that the maximum value for the coffee is reached, and that buyers are never disappointed. Alexander works in the four tasting laboratories that the coop has in Antioquia.<br />
<br />
Here Alexander is testing the fragrance of the ground coffee.<br />
<br />
Speciality coffee and coffees with a prized cupping profile can reach much higher prices. Coffee with defects reaches a lower price, often on the national market only.
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  • Diana Gallego Vargas, part of the technical team for Andes Coop. The team of 14 agronomists that visit the 3500 farmers, is paid for using Fairtrade Premium. Diana has a degree in agriculture and is much loved by the farmers she visits, teaching them techniques to reduce costs, improved quality and volume of output and maximise their incomes.
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  • Diana Gallego Vargas, part of the technical team for Andes Coop. The team of 14 agronomists that visit the 3500 farmers, is paid for using Fairtrade Premium. Diana has a degree in agriculture and is much loved by the farmers she visits, teaching them techniques to reduce costs, improved quality and volume of output and maximise their incomes.
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  • Coffee samples at an Andes Coop laboratory are kept from every batch to assist with the quality control, and in case of a problem, the original samples can be referred to.<br />
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The Fairtrade Premium is used by the Andes Coop for quality control equipment, laboratories, staff and training.
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  • Diana Gallego Vargas, part of the technical team for Andes Coop. The team of 14 agronomists that visit the 3500 farmers, is paid for using Fairtrade Premium. Diana has a degree in agriculture and is much loved by the farmers she visits, teaching them techniques to reduce costs, improved quality and volume of output and maximise their incomes.
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  • Sacks of coffee ready for transport at the Fairtrade-certified Andes Coop in Antioquia, Colombia.
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  • The Fairtrade Premium is used by the Andes Coop for quality control equipment, laboratories, staff and training. Here staff make visual inspections of new batches of coffee entering the warehouse.
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  • Sacks of coffee ready for transport at the Fairtrade-certified Andes Coop in Antioquia, Colombia.
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  • In the new central coffee mill in Farallones, workers open sacks of coffee cherries arriving from farms in the afternoons. <br />
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The new central processing mill for Andes coop was built in Farallones, Antioquia at 1280msm. The mill was recently inaugurated and was built with money from the Fairtrade Premium. The mill standardises processing and allows the coop to improve quality of final product by eliminating variations and defects in processing that happens when farmers process their own coffee. By doing this they can improve the income for the farmers. The mill can process 90,000 kg/day and also has a water treatment plant.
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  • The new central processing mill for Andes coop was built in Farallones, Antioquia at 1280msm. The mill was recently inaugurated and was built with money from the Fairtrade Premium. The mill standardises processing and allows the coop to improve quality of final product by eliminating variations and defects in processing that happens when farmers process their own coffee. By doing this they can improve the income for the farmers. The mill can process 90,000 kg/day and also has a water treatment plant.
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  • The new central processing mill for Andes coop was built in Farallones, Antioquia at 1280msm. The mill was recently inaugurated and was built with money from the Fairtrade Premium. The mill standardises processing and allows the coop to improve quality of final product by eliminating variations and defects in processing that happens when farmers process their own coffee. By doing this they can improve the income for the farmers. The mill can process 90,000 kg/day and also has a water treatment plant.
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  • In the new central coffee mill in Farallones, workers open sacks of coffee cherries arriving from farms in the afternoons. <br />
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The new central processing mill for Andes coop was built in Farallones, Antioquia at 1280msm. The mill was recently inaugurated and was built with money from the Fairtrade Premium. The mill standardises processing and allows the coop to improve quality of final product by eliminating variations and defects in processing that happens when farmers process their own coffee. By doing this they can improve the income for the farmers. The mill can process 90,000 kg/day and also has a water treatment plant.
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  • Alvaro Contreras, in charge of environmental control at the coffee mill at Farallones, runs a water processing plant that processes all the waste that comes out of the coffee mill. The waste from coffee mills is toxic and highly acidic and in most mills it is poured into the local water system without treatment. The treatment plant, which was built with Fairtrade Premium, runs for ten hours a day and turns all the poisonous waste water into pH neutral, filtered, clear and sterilised water before returning it to the water system. The solids are turned into compacted fertilisers and soil improvers for the farmers in the coop.
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  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
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  • Yuliana Restrepo, lives in Peña Azules, at La Piedra farm, Antioquia, Colombia.<br />
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Yuliana's father Jairo Restrepo is a coffee farmer with the Fairtrade-certified Andes Coop and he has recently become affiliated to the BEPS pension scheme, with contributions from the Fairtrade Premium. Yuliana says "it's good for the older people to get some security in their old age, otherwise they can never stop working, and they fear becoming dependent on family members, even if their family don't mind. But between harvests sometimes it's hard, we don't always have enough to eat. So, having a small pension is a big help for everyone".
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  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
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  • Jairo Restrepo says he’s 110 years old, he laughs loudly, in fact, he has to calculate it, he’s 58. Recently, a mule fell on top of him. He was loading the mule with sacks of coffee from his farm, when the mule slipped on the steep incline of the mountain and got stuck on top of him with its legs in the air. “It could have killed me, but it gave me a hernia. It’s serious, Ave Maria! the pain is terrible.” He’s waiting for an operation to fix it. With the Fairtrade Premium the Andes Coop now makes regular contributions to the BEPS pension system for him, and additionally, when he sells coffee, the coop makes further contributions of 3% of the sales. “It’s better like this, when I sell the coffee, to make my contribution then, because I can’t make monthly contributions, my income is not monthly, it’s just when I get a harvest”. Aging coffee farmers, until now, have had poor health care, and no pension to look forward to. This is hard on the farmers, hard on their families, and it makes farming unattractive for young farmers. Coop administrators talk in worried terms about problems of 'generational takeover’ as young people abandon farming in large numbers. The BEPS system gives farmers better access to health care, such as hernia operations, and will provide a bi-monthly income to retired farmers. Don Jairo reflects: “man, coffee farming is tough. Sometimes I’m completely skint, sometimes we have long spells when we don’t eat three times a day, we don’t eat properly. Sometimes my clothes are torn, and my clothes stay torn, I can’t even afford a second-hand shirt. And, I tell you, I’ve worked like a bull all my life, I’ve had no Sundays, no bank holidays, no holidays. I have to go up the mountain, every day, that’s what I’ve had to do, that’s what I’ve got to do now, hacking a living out of the mountain. And what have I got now?” he laughs “a hernia!”. “What can I tell you, a pension makes a big difference for us, i
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  • Arcadio de Jesus Ruiz Cardona is a coffee farmer in Santa Elena, Andes, Antioquia: "I'm 62 years old, 62 and a half"<br />
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"The technical support from the coop is useful, when they come we learn new things, me and my sons."<br />
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"I’m inscribed in the BEPS programme, the pensions, it’s a sort of savings, we put some money in, the coop does and I do when I sell coffee, and then I can get money out, a collaboration, a pension, when I need it. I will be more secure in my old age.<br />
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It means I can believe in a good future, no one could do that before. <br />
<br />
I worked for a company in Medellín for years, and my pension contributions from then would be lost, because they are out of date, but through the BEPS programme with the coop I can get that money too, which is good, knowing that it would be lost otherwise."<br />
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The Fairtrade Premium is used by the Andes Coop in Antioquia, Colombia, to set up and run the BEPS pensions programme with its members.
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  • Arcadio de Jesus Ruiz Cardona is a coffee farmer in Santa Elena, Andes, Antioquia: "I'm 62 years old, 62 and a half"<br />
 <br />
"The technical support from the coop is useful, when they come we learn new things, me and my sons."<br />
<br />
"I’m inscribed in the BEPS programme, the pensions, it’s a sort of savings, we put some money in, the coop does and I do when I sell coffee, and then I can get money out, a collaboration, a pension, when I need it. I will be more secure in my old age.<br />
<br />
It means I can believe in a good future, no one could do that before. <br />
<br />
I worked for a company in Medellín for years, and my pension contributions from then would be lost, because they are out of date, but through the BEPS programme with the coop I can get that money too, which is good, knowing that it would be lost otherwise."<br />
<br />
The Fairtrade Premium is used by the Andes Coop in Antioquia, Colombia, to set up and run the BEPS pensions programme with its members.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Arcadio de Jesus Ruiz Cardona is a coffee farmer in Santa Elena, Andes, Antioquia: "I'm 62 years old, 62 and a half"<br />
 <br />
"The technical support from the coop is useful, when they come we learn new things, me and my sons."<br />
<br />
"I’m inscribed in the BEPS programme, the pensions, it’s a sort of savings, we put some money in, the coop does and I do when I sell coffee, and then I can get money out, a collaboration, a pension, when I need it. I will be more secure in my old age.<br />
<br />
It means I can believe in a good future, no one could do that before. <br />
<br />
I worked for a company in Medellín for years, and my pension contributions from then would be lost, because they are out of date, but through the BEPS programme with the coop I can get that money too, which is good, knowing that it would be lost otherwise."<br />
<br />
The Fairtrade Premium is used by the Andes Coop in Antioquia, Colombia, to set up and run the BEPS pensions programme with its members.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Arcadio de Jesus Ruiz Cardona is a coffee farmer in Santa Elena, Andes, Antioquia: "I'm 62 years old, 62 and a half"<br />
 <br />
"The technical support from the coop is useful, when they come we learn new things, me and my sons."<br />
<br />
"I’m inscribed in the BEPS programme, the pensions, it’s a sort of savings, we put some money in, the coop does and I do when I sell coffee, and then I can get money out, a collaboration, a pension, when I need it. I will be more secure in my old age.<br />
<br />
It means I can believe in a good future, no one could do that before. <br />
<br />
I worked for a company in Medellín for years, and my pension contributions from then would be lost, because they are out of date, but through the BEPS programme with the coop I can get that money too, which is good, knowing that it would be lost otherwise."<br />
<br />
The Fairtrade Premium is used by the Andes Coop in Antioquia, Colombia, to set up and run the BEPS pensions programme with its members.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Arcadio de Jesus Ruiz Cardona is a coffee farmer in Santa Elena, Andes, Antioquia: "I'm 62 years old, 62 and a half"<br />
 <br />
"The technical support from the coop is useful, when they come we learn new things, me and my sons."<br />
<br />
"I’m inscribed in the BEPS programme, the pensions, it’s a sort of savings, we put some money in, the coop does and I do when I sell coffee, and then I can get money out, a collaboration, a pension, when I need it. I will be more secure in my old age.<br />
<br />
It means I can believe in a good future, no one could do that before. <br />
<br />
I worked for a company in Medellín for years, and my pension contributions from then would be lost, because they are out of date, but through the BEPS programme with the coop I can get that money too, which is good, knowing that it would be lost otherwise."<br />
<br />
The Fairtrade Premium is used by the Andes Coop in Antioquia, Colombia, to set up and run the BEPS pensions programme with its members.
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  • Green coffee cherries on coffee plants on an Andes Coop coffee farm in Antioquia, Colombia.
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  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain slopes of Antioquia.
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  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia, here some are intercropped with bananas, partly for shade and partly to have another crop from the same land. Currenty the price for bananas on the market is so low that small-scale banana production is not economically viable as a business, but much of the bananas are consumed locally.
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  • Coffee farms on the steep mountain sides of Antioquia, here some are intercropped with bananas, partly for shade and partly to have another crop from the same land. Currenty the price for bananas on the market is so low that small-scale banana production is not economically viable as a business, but much of the bananas are consumed locally.
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  • Diana Gallego Vargas, part of the technical team for Andes Coop. The team of 14 agronomists that visit the 3500 farmers, is paid for using Fairtrade Premium. Diana has a degree in agriculture and is much loved by the farmers she visits, teaching them techniques to reduce costs, improved quality and volume of output and maximise their incomes.<br />
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Here Diana gives a course to farmers on identifying defects in coffee.
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  • Diana Gallego Vargas, part of the technical team for Andes Coop. The team of 14 agronomists that visit the 3500 farmers, is paid for using Fairtrade Premium. Diana has a degree in agriculture and is much loved by the farmers she visits, teaching them techniques to reduce costs, improved quality and volume of output and maximise their incomes.<br />
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Here Diana gives a course to farmers on identifying defects in coffee.
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  • Young coffee bushes on a steep mountain slope in Antioquia. Bushes begin to give a small harvest after three years, these bushes are just one year old.
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  • On the way to Andes, Antioquia, Oney and Guillermo position coffee sacks on top of an open-sided 'Chiva' bus, typical of this region in Colombia. Farmers here transport their produce to the Andes Coop coffee mills using various means of transport including Chivas.
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