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Isacio Javier Albir is the owner of the 87 hectare farm, Agua Sarca in the Dipilto area of Nueva Segovia. 20 hectares of the farm is a nature reserve which is wild forest with a river running through it. The other 60 or so hectares are planted with a whole host of varieties, including caturra, catuai, obata, marsellesa, parainema, geisha, java and...

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The Red de Mujeres, or ‘network of women’, is a large group of female coffee producers covering five different areas of Huehuetenango. The group is made up of 830 women. Within the entire community of women there are 8 different Mayan languages spoken, highlighting the diversity of culture and language in this area of Guatemala. All of these...

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Ato Tesfaye Bekele is one of the people that put Guji specialty coffee on the map. While the Guji zone was dominated by cattle farmers, he sought new ways to make coffee popular in Guji. “I don’t consider myself to be a coffee farmer, because coffee is everything to me. All my time and energy are placed into the beans that I harvest and process.” Tesfaye...

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Sookoo Coffee is perhaps the most foundational relationship of Osito’s in Ethiopia, which, generally, is one of our greatest countries of focus. Osito have been working with Sookoo’s founder, Ture Waji, since our earliest days of sourcing in Ethiopia. Ture and his brother, Assefa, founded the company (legally, Dambi Uddo Agro Industry) in...