Marcala The day moved in the slow deliberate, yet sometimes desperate, speed of the countryside, filled with quite, almost boredom, one minute, and adventure and mayhem the next. We started down the mountainside to an uncertain appointment in Marcala. We were joining our friends at COMUCAP, the small women’s coffee and aloe vera growing cooperative, here …
Category: Coffee
Learning Direct Trade in the Coffee Mountains of San Juancito
San Juancito At first I was confused driving out of the serpentine mountains and hillsides on which Tegucigalpa is perched, but then I realized that we were on the same highway we had traveled a year ago to Valle de los Angeles, a small, pretty colonial spot specializing in pupusas and tourists. We took a left, …
Unfair Fairtrade
New Orleans ACORN International released a hard-hitting report that was the result of extensive research during the summer, largely conducted by Melanie Craxton, an economics major at the University of Edinburg, interning in the New Orleans headquarters. Because of our partnership with COMUCAP, the women’s coffee and aloe vera growing cooperative in Marcala, Honduras, and …