Organic Bolivia Cafe Femenino

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Cafe Femenino (Fairtrade certified)

Coffee region: 

South America

Processing: 

Fully Washed

Pack size: 

227g

Certification: 

Organic and Fairtrade certified

Projects: 

Cafe Femenino

This Fairtrade certified and organic, 100% Café Femenino coffee, possesses a delightfully rich body, balanced acidity and with enticing notes of caramel, dark chocolate and a hint of coriander spiciness. Supporting the women that harvested and processed this coffee.

Ground/beans	Qty	Price	Add to mule
Please select Beans Espresso Grind Ground		£4.29

Our ground coffees are suitable for use in a wide range of coffee brewing equipment including filters, French press (cafetiere), percolators, AeroPress, Chemex and siphons.

For espresso machines, we recommend that you finely grind your choice of Grumpy Mule coffee beans for the best results. Alternatively, we can finely grind the beans to order for you – simply choose the espresso grind option.

Our Organic Bolivia coffee is from the Union Pro-Agro cooperative and is both Fairtrade certified and supporting the Cafe Femenino project. Creamy body and amazingly aromatic.

Women coffee producers are vital to world coffee production yet harsh gender inequalities, poverty and abuse are rampant in many coffee producing regions. Many women coffee producers have no rights, no income and some, along with their children, are abandoned by their husbands.

The Café Femenino Coffee Project is a social program for women coffee producers in rural communities around the world and more than 1,500 women in Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru are active in the project to achieve empowerment, build social and support networks, and earn incomes through the production and sale of 100% single origin, “Café Femenino” coffees.

The success of the Project also initiated the creation of The Café Femenino Foundation, which provides direct grants to selected programs and projects that enhance the lives of women and their families in coffee growing communities. In Bolivia this has included schemes such as: training programs to improve producers’ abilities in farm management, coffee improvement and organisational business management; the provision of elevated coffee drying tables to improve processing and quality; rebuilding of damaged coffee nurseries following significant storm damage to plants and the nursery.

The Fairtrade-certified Union Pro-Agro cooperative (La Asociación Unión de Productores Agropecuarios) is based in Caranavi in Bolivia’s Yungas region. It has around 250 smallholder producers in total; of which around 20% are women; each with an average of 3 hectares dedicated to organic coffee. The producers, working within their community “colonias” also grow other aromatic, citrus and medicinal plants. The coffees are grown organically at altitudes up to 1750m.

In additional to the Fairtrade and organic premiums, the women producers receive a further premium exclusively for themselves under the Café Femenino Coffee Project (http://www.cafefemenino.com/) and a donation of $0.05 per pound of coffee is also made to a women’s crisis organisation in the UK.

This organic, 100% Café Femenino coffee possesses a delightfully rich body, balanced acidity and with enticing notes of caramel, dark chocolate and a hint of coriander spiciness.

A syrupy smooth breakfast coffee, suitable for a range of coffee making equipment.

The Cafe Femenino Story

Women coffee producers are vital to world coffee production yet harsh gender inequalities, poverty and abuse are rampant in many coffee producing regions. Most women coffee producers have no rights – particularly over land - no income and some are abandoned by their husbands.
The Café Femenino Coffee Project is a social program for women coffee producers in rural communities around the world and more than 1,500 women in Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru are active in the project to achieve empowerment, build social and support networks, and earn incomes through the production and sale of the Café Femenino Coffee. The success of the Project initiated the creation of The Café Femenino Foundation, which provides grants to select programs and projects that enhance the lives of women and their families in coffee growing communities.

At Grumpy Mule we are dedicated to the following commitments for this coffee:

• To sell the coffee with the name Café Femenino on the label

• To not blend this coffee in order to maintain its integrity and Café Femenino status

• To have our female employees significantly involved in the sales and marketing of the coffee. Thanks to Debbie, Lyn and Louise in helping us to achieve this!!

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