How coffee shaped Colombia 6 May 2022 By Maria Jose Parra For many decades, Colombia has held a strong reputation for its single-origin coffee. It has suitable land to produce one of the most sought-after mild Arabica in the world. It Represents a crucial product for...
Discovering Luwero Kisansa Coffee 6 May 2022 Uganda is Africa’s second-largest coffee producer, after Ethiopia. While the Ethiopian highlands are the birthplace of Coffea arabica, the equatorial forests of Central and East Africa are home to Coffea canephora, better known as robusta. Robusta is most commonly used...
Ugandan Farmers in the EU Spotlight 6 May 2022 By Lorenz Stöckert In the fall of 2020, I started working with the Miale Tubana Mixed Farmers Collective from Mount Elgon in Eastern Uganda. The new member of Slow Food‘s Coffee Coalition and established Slow Food Presidium is cultivating and...
The arrival of the Slow Food Coffee Coalition in the Philippines 10 February 2022 You may not have heard of coffee in the Philippines before, but its history begins in 1740, when coffee was first planted by a Spanish monk in Lipa, a town south of Manila, making this city the coffee capital...