Colombian Excelso “Cafe Femenino” – Fair Trade Organic

Taste:  Sweet chocolate, mild dried fruit and medium fullness and acidity with mild aromas of brown sugar and maple syrup. A great overall cup that you can drink and enjoy everyday.

Roast:  A hard bean that takes a Dark/French roast very well and excels as an espresso.

About: Founded in 1993, COSURCA, together with its exporting agency, EXPOCOSURCA maintains constant projects with partners such as the InterAmerican Foundation, Cup For Education, and Café Femenino with the intention of teaching and training coffee growing men, women, and youth about agriculture, the environment, gender equality and leadership. Focusing on small scale farmers and their families allows future generations to produce coffee efficiently and effectively, make a living, and improve the lives of hard working people in very remote areas.

COSURCA is also passionate about taking care of the environment and works with all of its producers to establish environmentally friendly processing practices, such as filtration systems that improve the heavily saturated “honey water” which results from the washed processing methods. Also, nearly 500 member’s farms are certified for organic production and 150 are in the process of a 3 year transition period to obtain their organic certificate, all of which requires more intensive farming practices but much healthier for the planet.

Cafe Femenino recognizes that women in remote and rural coffee communities face a host of challenges that keep them trapped in poverty. Many of these isolated women live in male- dominated societies and have very little financial control or decision-making power.
In 2004, 464 women farmers in northern Peru decided to change this dynamic by separating their coffee production from the men’s. In that moment, for the first time, this group of women created their own product and income. Their coffee cooperative CECANOR joined their commercial partner Organic Products Trading Company (OPTCO) to create Café Femenino—a gender-focused program to support social justice and empowerment for women coffee producers worldwide.  U-Roast-Em is proud to support this effort by providing Cafe Femenino beans, and through donations to the Cafe Femenino Foundation.

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