Specialty Coffee Association Podcast
Education
Hundreds of smallholder coffee farmers in Yepocapa, Guatemala have experienced leaf-rust, drought, volcanic eruptions, and price fluctuations over the last few years. Profitability is the main constraint these farmers face, in maintaining healthy households and addressing price issues and other shocks - much like many other smallholder coffee farmers around the world.
Since 2015, Taya Brown has been conducting a multi-phase evaluation of constraints to technology uptake and profitability as part of a World Coffee Research development project that implemented the Centroamericano hybrid to address leaf-rust and low productivity. During a similar timeframe, Ryan Chipman founded Yepocapa Coffee, a US-based coffee importing enterprise focused on improving quality and transparency by becoming a direct link between US roasters and a cooperative of Yepocapa farmers.
In today’s lecture, Taya shares a profitability analysis for one farmer group. Ryan builds on this to share how his business is learning to identify and address the various factors in profitability. Both present examples of site-specific scientific investigation, focused on participatory and farmer-centric methods, to identify profitability constraints and guide response efforts.
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Related Links0:00 Introduction
2:40 The results of the profitability analysis of the Eca Montellano Cooperative
22:42 Ryan Chipman’s work analyzing how San Pedrana Cooperative’s cost of living and size of production affect farmer profitability and risk
47:00 Audience Questions
59:00 Outro
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#24: Re:co Podcast - Vava Angwenyi on Building an Alternative Narrative for Kenya's Coffee Farmers
#23: Re:co Podcast - Sustainability: Changing Everything Except the Goal
#22: Re:co Podcast - Andrea Illy on the Global Economics of Coffee
#21: Re:co Podcast - Ric Rhinehart on the Future for Specialty Coffee
#20: Re:co Podcast - The State and Future of the Coffee Economy
#19: The Science of Coffee Freshness
#18: Should Coffee Be Treated Like Wine?
#17: 10 Years of Re:co Symposium
#16: The Building Blocks of a Cafe
#15: Don't Hire Your Customers
#14: The Culture of Fermentation
#13: Building a Roasting Plant
#12: Coffee Botany 101
#11: Chemical Physics and Coffee
#10: Effective Strategies for Green Coffee Buyers
#9: Building a Sensory Program
BONUS: "Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick 2" at Bloom San Francisco
BONUS: Martha Stoumen at Bloom San Francisco
BONUS: Mokhtar Alkhanshali at Bloom San Francisco
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