San Pedro Sula Meeting with our organizers in Honduras and Mexico, we once again found ourselves struggling with the problems of certification claims for coffee and other products. The globally certifier for fair trade coffee, the Fair Licensing Organization (FLO) is based in Bonn, Germany, but everyone and their cousin is now certifying coffee as …
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Life in the Coffee Mountains with Co-ops Big and Small
Marcala Thanks to our friends at the small women’s coffee and aloe vera cooperative, COMUCAP, we usually stay at their cabinas high in the mountains. There’s no water or electricity, but the setting is beautiful and the bunks work fine for us. They hope someday eco-tourism will come their way, who knows? We started driving up …
Facing the Competition to Land a Big Broker’s Contract
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 …