Ademilson Borges, café APASCOFEEE (Brésil) : « Nous sommes quasiment nés sous le régime du café, n’est-ce pas? Je suis de la quatrième génération de productrice·eurs dans ma famille. La façon dont le café était produit à l’époque, quand mon père s’en occupait, comparée à celle d’aujourd’hui, a beaucoup évolué, trop évolué. Nous traitions du café conventionnel. Comme nous sommes pour la plupart de petit·es productrice·eurs, nous ne pouvons pas rivaliser avec la production de masse et devons donc proposer une valeur ajoutée en termes de qualité. C’est le cas aujourd’hui, puisque nous offrons maintenant un café de qualité, réaffirmant par là même le potentiel que revêt le café Fairtrade au Brésil. Aujourd’hui, São Gonçalo est connue au Brésil et dans le monde entier comme une région productrice de café de spécialité. » Genera Campos García, CENFROCAFE (Pérou) : « Je travaille au décorticage, au lavage et au séchage. Mon travail consiste à m’occuper des travailleuse·eurs et, pour être honnête, le café nous assure de très bons revenus, surtout dans cette région où nous vivons presque exclusivement du café. Nous élevons aussi de petits animaux, mais notre principale source de revenus, c’est le café. Fairtrade nous est bénéfique parce qu’il nous aide beaucoup grâce à la formation, que nous n’avions pas auparavant. Il y a aussi l’analyse du sol, l’aide à la fertilisation, que nous finançons à parts égales avec la coopérative. Je suis reconnaissante à CENFROCAFE de nous avoir aidés, par ses formations, à progresser. » Francisca Corea, Zoila Coto, Blanca Estela Chamol, Nancy Nayeli Zepeda et Ana Julia Portillo (de g. à d.), El Sunza (Salvador) : Zoila Coto, membre de la coopérative El Sunza, élue au conseil d’administration, a étudié à l’école du leadership et de l’autonomisation des femmes de la CLAC. « L’autonomisation est l’un des thèmes qui m’a été le plus utile, parce que j’avais l’habitude de dire : « Je ne peux pas faire ceci », parce que j’étais consciente de ne pouvoir le faire. Aujourd’hui, je me dis : « Je peux faire tout ce que je veux »… J’ai appris à croire en moi et à croire que je pourrai m’en sortir. Je suis reconnaissante d’avoir été choisie pour participer aux sessions de formation. » Norvey Vaquiro, café ASOBRIS (Colombie) : Norvey Vaquiro vit avec ses trois enfants et sa femme, qu’il a rencontrée dans le métier de la cueillette du café. À leur rencontre, il·elles avaient tous deux un rêve : vivre du café, avoir leur propre ferme et diriger leur propre entreprise de production de café. Après quelques années de travail, leur rêve s’est réalisé et leur entreprise de production de café se trouve aujourd’hui à Planadas, dans la province de Tolima. Aimant cultiver le café et travailler la terre, ce couple se dit tout à fait reconnaissant de commercialiser ses produits sous le label Fairtrade. Leurs pratiques culturales les amènent à entretenir leurs plantations de café à l’aide de produits biologiques, ce qui leur permet non seulement de réaliser des économies, mais aussi de s’inscrire dans une démarche conciliant gestion durable et agriculture responsable. Francine Ramírez (Costa Rica) : « C’est un honneur que de recevoir la distinction, celle de nous compter parmi les meilleures tasses Fairtrade dans la catégorie des cafés de luxe. Cela nous motive vraiment à faire mieux et à toujours soutenir les productrice·eurs aussi bien dans leur gestion que dans leurs procédés techniques et industriels. » Sergio Romero is a producer at CAFICO, Honduras.Coffee cups and coffee splashes.Juan Pineda is president of CABRIPEL, Honduras.Coffee beans drying at CAFESUL, Brazil.Ripe coffee cherries from CAFESUL, Brazil.Coffee bushes in bloom,Brazil.Luiz Cláudio de Souza with dry coffee beans from CAFESUL in Brazil.Luiz Cláudio de Souza and Talles da Silva de Souza with dry coffee beans from CAFESUL in Brazil.Luiz Cláudio de Souza with dry coffee beans from CAFESUL in Brazil.Coffee cherries in Brazil.Coffee cherries in Brazil.A worker loading coffee bags at CENFROCAFE, Peru.A worker loading coffee bags at CENFROCAFE, Peru.A coffee taster at CENFROCAFE, Peru.A coffee taster at CENFROCAFE, Peru.Edgar Chasquero Ocaña, coffee farmer, CENFROCAFE,Peru 2020.Edgar Chasquero Ocaña harvesting coffee cherries for the CENFROCAFE coop, Peru.A producer harvesting coffee cherries for CENFROCAFE coop, PeruEdgar Chasquero Ocaña harvesting coffee cherries for the CENFROCAFE coop, Peru.Genera Campos García harvesting coffee cherries for the CENFROCAFE coop, Peru.The Story of Coffee Nursery
The Story of Coffee Nursery.20 years old Raihan takes care the germinated coffee in coffee nursery. After high school, 20 years old Raihan did not want to continue her education to university. In his village, there are not many jobs available, so when other young people after graduating from college and return to Jeget Ayu they remain unemployed. ‘In the end you become a farmer too, so you have to learn farming,’ said Raihan. She is happy to be able to learn farming from the beginning as an asset to live a life in the future if she has her own land. .The Story of Rukimah
The Story of Rukimah.35 years old Rukimah, a wife and a mother of two, shows the coffee cherries. Due to Covid 19, the price of coffee has decreased a lot. Rukimah hopes the price will be normal again, so her daughter could continue the education to the university. “If the price of coffee back to the price before pandemic, I think I could send my daughter to university”, she said..The Story of Mardiana
The Story of Mardiana.38 years old Mardiana Mandasari, a wife and mother of three. Mardiana complies with coffee farming in an organic way. She is not interested in switching to using chemicals on her land. Although she feels very hard when doing the maintenance on coffee trees, such as eradicating grass pests manually. She heard several times the stories of several other farmers who used chemicals. According to them, the coffee fruit became many, but only for a moment. Coffee production is not sustainable. ‘For me, the fruit is better stable than a lot, but after that the soil is damaged,’ said Mardiana..The Story of Mardiana
The Story of Mardiana.38 years old Mardiana Mandasari, a wife and mother of three. Mardiana complies with coffee farming in an organic way. She is not interested in switching to using chemicals on her land. Although she feels very hard when doing the maintenance on coffee trees, such as eradicating grass pests manually. She heard several times the stories of several other farmers who used chemicals. According to them, the coffee fruit became many, but only for a moment. Coffee production is not sustainable. ‘For me, the fruit is better stable than a lot, but after that the soil is damaged,’ said Mardiana..The Story of Mardiana
The Story of Mardiana.38 years old Mardiana Mandasari, a wife and mother of three. Mardiana complies with coffee farming in an organic way. She is not interested in switching to using chemicals on her land. Although she feels very hard when doing the maintenance on coffee trees, such as eradicating grass pests manually. She heard several times the stories of several other farmers who used chemicals. According to them, the coffee fruit became many, but only for a moment. Coffee production is not sustainable. ‘For me, the fruit is better stable than a lot, but after that the soil is damaged,’ said Mardiana..The Story of Mardiana
The Story of Mardiana.38 years old Mardiana Mandasari (left), a wife and mother of three pick the red cherries with the help of her neighbour Yatmin (48). Mardiana complies with coffee farming in an organic way. She is not interested in switching to using chemicals on her land. Although she feels very hard when doing the maintenance on coffee trees, such as eradicating grass pests manually. She heard several times the stories of several other farmers who used chemicals. According to them, the coffee fruit became many, but only for a moment. Coffee production is not sustainable. ‘For me, the fruit is better stable than a lot, but after that the soil is damaged,’ said Mardiana..The Story of Coffee Nursery
The Story of Coffee Nursery.20 years old Raihan shows the germinated coffee in coffee nursery. She learns many new things during the coffee nursery programme. Although the children of coffee farmers often help their parents at their coffee plantation, they know the process of growing coffee from preparing the land, sowing the seeds, to tending the coffee beans into germination during the coffee nursery program. The program has added new knowledge for them that they previously only knows how to harvest the coffee cherry..The Story of Sumardi
The Story of Sumardi.Sumardi (30) (right) and Seman (left) tries to use a pulper machine from Fairtrade. Pulper machines are provided per coffee farmer group. Farmers can borrow the pulper machine to take them to their farm, if the farm location is far from the collector. With a pulper machine, farmers can process coffee from cherry into grain in their farm. Farmers’ jobs are more effective, because they can directly transport coffee grain from the fields to the collectors. When processing cherries with a pulper machine in the fields, they can leave the coffee skins in their farm so that the coffee skins will later become organic fertilizer for their coffee plants..The Story of Rukimah
The Story of Rukimah.Rukimah says if the price is still low like this, we can not pay people to maintain the coffee trees or help us to harvest the cherries during harvest season. Usually we have to pay 3-4 people to help us work in the coffee farm. Now, as the strategy to save the expenses, I and my husband do all the work of maintaining it by ourselves. Because we get the training as well so we can work on our farm otherwise we need to pay other people to do that. ..Rukimah also planted some vegetables so it could help her family to survive beside the coffee income. “The vegetable prices are also decreasing, but I am still able to cook the vegetables for family,” she said. In this kind of time, we also need to maintain our health. Our health is number one, meanwhile we can always find a way to meet financial needs..The Story of Sumardi
The Story of Sumardi.Sumardi (30) (left) and Seman (49) (right) tries to use a pulper machine from Fairtrade. They check the coffee grain from the pulper machine. ..Pulper machines are provided per coffee farmer group. Farmers can borrow the pulper machine to take them to their farm, if the farm location is far from the collector. With a pulper machine, farmers can process coffee from cherry into grain in their farm. Farmers’ jobs are more effective, because they can directly transport coffee grain from the fields to the collectors. When processing cherries with a pulper machine in the fields, they can leave the coffee skins in their farm so that the coffee skins will later become organic fertilizer for their coffee plants..The Story of Rukimah
The Story of Rukimah.35 years old Rukimah, a wife and a mother of two works at her coffee farm. Usually we have to pay 3-4 people to help us work in the coffee farm. Now, as the strategy to save the expenses, I and my husband do all the work of maintaining it by ourselves. Because we get the training as well so we can work on our farm otherwise we need to pay other people to do that. .The Story of Mardiana
The Story of Mardiana.38 years old Mardiana Mandasari (left), a wife and mother of three pick the red cherries with the help of her neighbour Yatmin (48). Mardiana complies with coffee farming in an organic way. She is not interested in switching to using chemicals on her land. Although she feels very hard when doing the maintenance on coffee trees, such as eradicating grass pests manually. She heard several times the stories of several other farmers who used chemicals. According to them, the coffee fruit became many, but only for a moment. Coffee production is not sustainable. ‘For me, the fruit is better stable than a lot, but after that the soil is damaged,’ said Mardiana..The Story of Mardiana
The Story of Mardiana.38 years old Mardiana Mandasari (left), a wife and mother of three pick the red cherries with the help of her neighbour Yatmin (48). Mardiana complies with coffee farming in an organic way. She is not interested in switching to using chemicals on her land. Although she feels very hard when doing the maintenance on coffee trees, such as eradicating grass pests manually. She heard several times the stories of several other farmers who used chemicals. According to them, the coffee fruit became many, but only for a moment. Coffee production is not sustainable. ‘For me, the fruit is better stable than a lot, but after that the soil is damaged,’ said Mardiana..
