coffee csa

April 27, 2011 in ideas + models
Tags: coffee, International

Nora of Strongtree Organic Coffee Roasters in Hudson says that the specialty coffee market is screaming about global climate change, crop failures, drought, supply chain dysfunction, and in general the feeling that their sector is a canary in the coal mine of the global food system.

here is a small project that is quite hopeful,  but in general the meta-narrative keeps being gloomy.

CoffeeCSA.orgis 100% owned and controlled by the farmers featured on this siteWhen you buy a share of the harvest at CoffeeCSA, you get the best of the crop while helping to fund next year’s harvest and strengthen small-scale family farms. CoffeeCSA offers you great coffee and a meaningful relationship with a hard-working farm family.Pachamama Coffee Cooperative, the organization that started CoffeeCSA.org, is a unique international cooperative that is owned by other democratically-run cooperatives, which, in turn are owned by more than 140,000 small-scale farmers, including those featured on this website.

The photography and video artwork presented on this site was created by Olaf Hammelburg on behalf of the farmers themselves, who own and reserve all rights to this content.

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Read an article about CoffeeCSA in The New York Times.

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