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Sustainability
ICAFE Cafeology
The Coffee Institute of Costa Rica

Liam Worsley, Sustainability Manager When it comes to the numbers,
at Cafeology Ltd, continues his Costa Rica has.
serialisation of the origin trip in
February 2023 where he visited one
of Cafeology’s long-standing coffee
producer partners in Costa Rica.

In the same vein as Roberto and his 26,000
family, you cannot talk about Costa
Rican coffee without ICAFE (the Coffee producers
Institute of Costa Rica). Founded in
1933, ICAFE is a non-state public
institution in charge of coffee
production and exportation in Costa
Rica and is regulated by law number
2762.

ICAFE’s objectives are: to promote a
unique and equitable production model
among producers, millers, roasters, and
exporters; to support the production, 290
processing, export, and marketing of
Costa Rican coffee; to promote national mills
and international coffee consumption;
to research and develop agricultural
and industrial technology; to approve a
fair minimum price that goes to
producers (farmers). Essentially, they
are present at every step of the coffee’s

journey to guarantee quality,
sustainability and traceability.

Fundamentally, ICAFE protects 90
everyone in the chain creating a system
that provides producer protection unlike exporters
anything else worldwide. This is crucial
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receives the least amount of money and
has the least business knowledge.

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