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  • Juan Lopez Balan, a Kaqchikel Maya coffee farmer, examines diseased coffee berries affected by coffee rust in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals in an attempt to control the fungus, but these berries, which turned yellow rather than red, demonstrate that the fungus continues to wreak havoc.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-14.jpg
  • Juan Lopez Balan, a Kaqchikel Maya coffee farmer, displays a leaf that has been affected by coffee rust in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals in an attempt to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-12.jpg
  • Juan Lopez Balan, a Kaqchikel Maya coffee farmer, displays a leaf that has been affected by coffee rust in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals in an attempt to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-13.jpg
  • A Kakchiquel Maya woman picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-06.jpg
  • A Kakchiquel Maya woman picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-05.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-26.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-23.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-22.jpg
  • Maria Dominguez Jacobo, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-21.jpg
  • Rosa Elvira Jacobo, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-20.jpg
  • Silvia Cojon, a 11-year old Kakchiquel Maya girl, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-18.jpg
  • Carmen Elvira Tay, a 9-year old Kaqchikel Maya girl, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-09.jpg
  • A Kakchiquel Maya woman picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-07.jpg
  • A Kakchiquel Maya woman picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-04.jpg
  • Maria Dominguez Jacobo, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-02.jpg
  • Carmen Elvira Tay, a 9-year old Kaqchikel Maya girl, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-30.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-29.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-27.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-24.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-25.jpg
  • Rosa Elvira Jacobo, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-19.jpg
  • Carmen Elvira Tay, a 9-year old Kaqchikel Maya girl, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-11.jpg
  • Carmen Elvira Tay, a 9-year old Kaqchikel Maya girl, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-10.jpg
  • Carmen Elvira Tay, a 9-year old Kaqchikel Maya girl, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-08.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-03.jpg
  • Maria Dominguez Jacobo, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-01.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-28.jpg
  • Eulogio Balan, an 89-year old Kakchiquel Maya coffee farmer in San Martin Jilotepequez, Guatemala, talks about the trials of dealing with coffee rust, a terrible plant disease that has affected coffee farms throughout the region. Balan is an organic farmer, and has preferred to let his plants suffer the disease in the hope they will eventually recover.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-16.jpg
  • Eulogio Balan, an 89-year old Kakchiquel Maya coffee farmer in San Martin Jilotepequez, Guatemala. Like those of his neighbors, Balan's farm has suffered from coffee rust, a terrible plant disease that has affected coffee growers throughout the region. Balan is an organic farmer, and has preferred to let his plants suffer the disease in the hope they will eventually recover.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-15.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 />
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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.
    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
  • José Aquiles, owner of the El Sentido coffee farm and member of the UCPCO coop, in San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua. José has two workers and cultivates a small area of coffee as well as basic grains for his family. Here José shows the difference between 'pinto' coffee - not completely ripe - and fully ripe coffee. Only the fully ripe coffee is used in top quality specialty coffee. The coop is a certified Fairtrade producer.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_UCPCO_20111118_042.jpg
  • José Aquiles, owner of the El Sentido coffee farm and member of the UCPCO coop, in San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua. José has two workers and cultivates a small area of coffee as well as basic grains for his family. Here José shows the difference between 'pinto' coffee - not completely ripe - and fully ripe coffee. Only the fully ripe coffee is used in top quality specialty coffee. The coop is a certified Fairtrade producer.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_UCPCO_20111118_025.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
  • Fany Pastora Pineda, 24, picking coffee at a COMISAJUL farm. In this area of Honduras the hillsides are particularly steep and are located at around 1600 metres above sea level. COMISAJUL, Cooperativa Mixta San Juancito Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee cooperative based in San Juancito, Francisco Morazan, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COMISAJUL_20120210_0...jpg
  • Juan Gonzalez is a member of the Cuna Chorti coffee farming coop. His ripe coffee cherries are ready to be picked on his coffee farm. This year, instead of ripening over three months, all the coffee ripened in one month, and farmers are putting this down to climate change. This has caused  problems as there isn't enough labour to pick the coffee in one month, so some coffee is being lost. Cuna Chorti cooperative is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
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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.
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • 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
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • 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
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<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
  • Julio Zeledón, coffee farmer and member of COOMPROCOM in Payacuca, Terrabona, Matagalpa, here he shows broca damage on his coffee. COOMPROCOM Coop was founded in 2003 and fairtrade certified by FLO in the same year.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_COOMPROCOM_20111021...jpg
  • 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
    Colombia_Hawkey_FT_Antioquia_2017090...jpg
  • Mechanically depulped coffee beans, known as parchment coffee, is being washed in a wet mill to remove mucilage (remnants of the coffee cherry, or fruit).
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CORCASAN_20111117_0...jpg
  • Oneida Junieth Reyes Hernandez, 16, helps her father after school in the coffee picking season. Her father is a member of the Aldea Global coop. Aldea Global is a Fairtrade-certified coop that produces coffee in the Jinotega region of Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Aldea_Global_201112...jpg
  • Coffee bushes very heavily-laden with coffee cherries about a month before harvest. Fairtrade-certified Cooperatives El Gorrión and Polo are Fairtrade-certified coffee producers in San Sebastián de Yalí, Jinotega, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Gorrion_20111013_01...jpg
  • On the finca San Antonio, a coffee farm that is a member of CORCASAN coop, Agustin Castro picks the first ripe coffee cherries.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CORCASAN_20111117_0...jpg
  • Mario David Perez wears the traditional dress of the Todos los Santos region and carries a basket of freshly picked coffee through a coffee farm. Mario is part of the ACODIHUE group. Asociación de Cooperación al Desarrollo Integral de Huehuetenango, ACODIHUE, is a Fairtrade-certified producer of honey and coffee based in Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • A young coffee picker, David Martinez, near Yalí. Fairtrade-certified Cooperatives El Gorrión and Polo are Fairtrade-certified coffee producers in San Sebastián de Yalí, Jinotega, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Gorrion_20111013_02...jpg
  • On the finca San Antonio, a coffee farm that is a member of CORCASAN coop, Hilton Garcia, 17, shows a handful of the first ripe coffee cherries.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CORCASAN_20111117_0...jpg
  • Mechanically depulped coffee beans, known as parchment coffee, is being washed in a wet mill to remove mucilage (remnants of the coffee cherry, or fruit).
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CORCASAN_20111117_0...jpg
  • Depulped coffee beans, known as parchment coffee, is being washed in a wet mill.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CORCASAN_20111117_0...jpg
  • Yorlin Sanchez, 19, is picking coffee on a farm at El Balsamo that is part of the Arca de Noe Coop. The coffee-producing coop Arca de Noe in San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua, is Fairtrade-certified.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Arca_de_Noe_2011111...jpg
  • Freshly-picked coffee is sorted to extract the unripe coffee cherries. PAOLT is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Trinidad, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_PAOLT_20120131_072.jpg
  • Coffee cherries are placed into a chute at the COSGUAL coffee mill. COSAGUAL, Cooperativa de Servicios Agropecuarios Gualcinse Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Gualcinse, Lempira, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COSAGUAL_20120104_20...jpg
  • Ripe coffee cherries waiting to be picked at a COMISAJUL-associated farm. COMISAJUL, Cooperativa Mixta San Juancito Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee cooperative based in San Juancito, Francisco Morazan, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_COMISAJUL_20120210_0...jpg
  • Roasted coffee at the Flor del Pino Coop. The women's group at the Flor del Pino Coop have been supported by Finnish Fairtrade to set up a coffee roaster, increasing the ability of the coop to add value to their work.
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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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  • A coffee cupping workshop at the Tierra Nueva Coop coffee laboratory. Here Olinda Duarte tests for fragrance in a variety of coffee samples. During the workshop members of the coop staff learn how to rate coffee with the assistance of a specialist cupper. Tierra Nueva coop in Boaco, Nicaragua, has more than 500 producer members, and is Fairtrade-certified.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Tierra_Nueva_201111...jpg
  • 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.
    Colombia_Hawkey_Anserma_Fairtrade_20...jpg
  • Santos Agustín Reyes with coffee plants in his coffee nursery. Santos is a member of Global Aldea  a fairtrade-certified coop that produces coffee in the Jinotega region.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Aldea_Global_201112...jpg
  • Pedro Agustín Redoy González is a coffee farmer and member of Aldea Global coop, here he inspects his coffee nursery with the help of Marcos García, technical staff at the coop. Aldea Global is a Fairtrade-certified coop that produces coffee in the Jinotega region of Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Aldea_Global_201112...jpg
  • Iván Vásquez, coffee cupper or coffee taster and quality control officer for RAOS testing coffee in the laboratory. RAOS, Cooperativa Regional Mixta de Agricultores Orgánicos de la Sierra, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Marcala, La Paz, Honduras.
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  • Freshly-picked coffee is sorted to extract the unripe coffee cherries. PAOLT is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Trinidad, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
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  • Coffee plants need shade. These young bushes, of one year old, are given shade by the fast growing bananas while trees grow up to shade the coffee. Fairtrade-certified Cooperatives El Gorrión and Polo are Fairtrade-certified coffee producers in San Sebastián de Yalí, Jinotega, Nicaragua.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_Gorrion_20111013_01...jpg
  • Workers use a mechanical depulping machine to remove the outer fruit from the coffee cherries, leaving the coffee bean for processing.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CORCASAN_20111117_0...jpg
  • Workers use a mechanical depulping machine to remove the outer fruit from the coffee cherries, leaving the coffee bean for processing.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CORCASAN_20111117_0...jpg
  • Sorting coffee on a coffe farm linked to PAOLT. PAOLT is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Trinidad, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
    Honduras_Hawkey_PAOLT_20120131_054.jpg
  • Coffee pickers carry sacks of freshly-picked coffee cherries in sacks from the coffee farm. Cooperativa Regional de Cafetaleros de San Juan de Rio Coco, CORCASAN, in Nicaragua, is Fairtrade-certified.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_CORCASAN_20111117_0...jpg
  • Maritza Sanchez and takes a short rest from picking coffee on a farm at El Balsamo that is part of the Arca de Noe Coop. The coffee-producing coop Arca de Noe in San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua, is fairtrade-certified. Fairtrade is an alternative approach to conventional trade and is based on a partnership between producers and consumers.
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  • Yorlin Sanchez, 19, is picking coffee on a farm at El Balsamo that is part of the Arca de Noe Coop. The coffee-producing coop Arca de Noe in San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua, is Fairtrade-certified.
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  • Maritza Sanchez, 22, is picking coffee on a farm at El Balsamo that is part of the Arca de Noe Coop. The coffee-producing coop Arca de Noe in San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua, is Fairtrade-certified.
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  • Candelaria Jerónimo Morales wearing a huipil picks coffee on her small farm in Buena Vista, Los Coles, Chimiche, San Pedro Necta, Huehuetenango. Candelaria is part of the ACODIHUE group. Asociación de Cooperación al Desarrollo Integral de Huehuetenango, ACODIHUE, is a Fairtrade-certified producer of honey and coffee based in Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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  • At finca Sta Lucia, a member of CORCASAN coop, Marlene Romero Lopez, 34 and a mother of three, picks coffee.
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  • At finca Sta Lucia, a member of CORCASAN coop, Marvin Falcon picks coffee.
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  • Iván Vásquez, coffee cupper or coffee taster and quality control officer for RAOS testing coffee in the laboratory. RAOS, Cooperativa Regional Mixta de Agricultores Orgánicos de la Sierra, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Marcala, La Paz, Honduras.
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  • Ripe coffee cherries waiting to be picked at a Fairtrade-certified coffee cooperative based in San Juancito, Francisco Morazan, Honduras.
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  • A woman picks coffee at a COCATRAL farm. COCATRAL, Cooperativa Cafetalera Agricola Trascerros Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Nueva Frontera, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
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  • A woman picks coffee at a COCATRAL farm. COCATRAL, Cooperativa Cafetalera Agricola Trascerros Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Nueva Frontera, Santa Barbara, Honduras.
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  • Magdalena Juan, picking coffee on her small plot of land near Barillas, Huehuetenango, Gautemala. Magdalena is affiliated to ASOBAGRI and produces Feminine Coffee, which is only produced by women.
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  • Workers use a mechanical depulping machine to remove the outer fruit from the coffee cherries, leaving the coffee bean for processing. Cooperativa Regional de Cafetaleros de San Juan de Rio Coco, CORCASAN, in Nicaragua, is Fairtrade-certified.
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  • Katy Valeska Paguaga Salinas and her father Don Pedro Antonio Paguaga Miranda work on their diversified farm that has several acres of coffee. Katy and her father are members of the Caja Rural Coop, San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua. The coop is Fairtrade-certified.
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  • Yellow coffee cherries ripening on the bush. Aldea Global is a Fairtrade-certified coop that produces coffee in the Jinotega region of Nicaragua.
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  • Rosa Sarmientos, member of the women's group at the Flor del Pino Coop. The women's group has been supported by Finnish Fairtrade to set up a coffee roaster, increasing the ability of the coop to add value to their work.
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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 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 is picking the earliest ripe coffee cherries on her farm.
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  • Ever Elajio Castro is the newly elected President of the Flor de Dalia coop. He lives on his farm in El Castillo, about 25km along a dirt road from La Dalia, Jinotega. His farm is about 6 manzanas of coffee, all organic catimor variety, and it's all sold as Fairtrade. The current coffee prices are around $100 a quintal sack on the market, but the Fairtrade price is $190 a quintal, including $20 that is paid to the coop as the Fairtrade Premium. Ever says that the benefit of Fairtrade isn't only the prices, the security they get from guaranteed prices, but there are big benefits environmentally, in terms of protecting water sources. "The coop doesn't have much capital" says Ever "so it really needs loans. If we don't have money available to pay for the work of production, we can easily end up having to sell to get quick cash, having to sell on the market, at low prices, and leaving the coop without the production it needs. So, loans allow us to keep members' production and it means we can sell at the Fairtrade price, it makes a huge difference getting loans from Root Capital".
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  • Maria Teresa Polanco at the Santo Domingo Coop, Telpaneca, Nicaragua. MAria Teresa produces coffee on a small plot of land and is a member of the coop. The coop is a certified organic Fairtrade producer.
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  • Green coffee cherries on coffee plants on an Andes Coop coffee farm in Antioquia, Colombia.
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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 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 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 />
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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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Here Yuliana is picking the earliest ripe coffee cherries on her farm.
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  • Bayron Sanchez is a coffee cupper, roaster, and in charge of technical support for the Solidaridad coop. Here Bayron is toasting coffee produced by the coop. The Solidaridad coffee-producing cooperative is based in Aranjuez, Matagalpa, with 63 producer members, including 19 women. The coop is Fairtrade-certified.
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  • Lucia Muñoz finishes picking the first ripe coffee beans at the Santo Domingo Coop, Telpaneca, Nicaragua. Her granddaughter, Concepción Picado, 7, likes to help her grandmother for half an hour after school.
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  • Angela Ramos, 29, picks coffee at a farm linked to the COSAGUAL coop. COSAGUAL, Cooperativa de Servicios Agropecuarios Gualcinse Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Gualcinse, Lempira, Honduras.
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  • Ripe red coffee cherries at a farm linked to COSAGUAL. COSAGUAL, Cooperativa de Servicios Agropecuarios Gualcinse Ltda, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in Gualcinse, Lempira, Honduras.
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  • In the coffee laboratory batches of coffee are carefully tested for quality by a professional coffee cupper or taster. Siglo XXI a certified fairtrade producer based in El Salvador.
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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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  • A Fairtrade coffee nursery run by Central de Cooperativas in Pueblo Nuevo, Nicaragua. Varieties of coffee that are resistant to drought and leaf-rust are being promoted, though farmers are resistent to plant them if they don't taste as good as the more fragile varieties.
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  • Close-up of coffee plants in a nursery. Aldea Global is a Fairtrade-certified coop that produces coffee in the Jinotega region of Nicaragua.
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