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New research from the Borderlands
Our Borderlands Coffee Project in Nariño, Colombia, includes a research partnership with our friends at CIAT, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Cali, Colombia. The collaboration...
View ArticleResearch analysis: coffee certification and specialization in the Borderlands
Yesterday I summarized the key findings of a study in the current issue of Food Policy that is based on data from our Borderlands project in Colombia. Today, I discuss the content and implications of...
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Research analysis: Farm labor in the Borderlands
Over the past two days, I published this summary of a peer-reviewed study based on data from our Borderlands project in Colombia and this interview with the study’s lead author. Today, I extract its...
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Borderlands at the USBC Qualifying Event
Two days ago I announced our USBC Origins Project, an initiative designed to honor the growers behind the extraordinary coffees that will be served by the country’s best baristas at the USBC Finals in...
View ArticleThe SCAA Event: Annual Coffeelands Preview
In less than one month the gavel will sound to open The SCAA Event. That means it’s time for the annual Coffeelands preview of The Event’s best “origin content.” In my 2012 SCAA preview post, I...
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Coffee’s role in the future of a peaceful Colombia
Maria leads two new cuppers through a quality sample of different lots. Maria and her family were displaced by the conflict. Photo: CRS/Kraig Kraft A few weeks ago, some exciting and hopeful news came...
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Developing the specialty market for robusta with the first “Taza Dorada” in...
The Borderlands project took place on two sides of the Colombian – Ecuadorian border. In Nariño we know about the hidden potential to produce high quality Arabica coffees. We’ve shared some of the...
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Borderlands 2016 Harvest Hits Stores
Pic by Neil Palmer (CIAT). Sacks coffee beans in the village of La Florida in Colombia’s southern Nariño Department, waiting to be exported. In the past week, lots from the 2016 Borderlands harvest...
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Building farmer organizations with social capital
We are temporary actors in the Coffeelands. Although CRS has been working for years in coffee origin countries (over 50 years of continued presence in Central America), projects are by their nature...
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Robusta farmers rewarded for quality in the 2nd Taza Dorada
Ángel Cleotildo Varela Arteaga is your 2017 Taza Dorada winner. The Coffeelands blogs suffers from a few coffee prejudices, which we readily admit to. Our geographical base is in Central America and...
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