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THIS COFFEE STANDS





         FOR WOMEN



























































          Café Femenino is a coffee brand that sources    Background on G ender Strategy
         exclusively from women farmers around the world.
                                                            Eighty percent of the world’s coffee is produced by 25
         First established by a coffee cooperative in Peru
                                                          million smallholder coffee producers.* While women play a
         (CECANOR) and their commercial trading partner
                                                          large role in all farming activities associated with coffee:
         Organic Products Trading Company (OPTCO) in 2003
                                                          preparing the terrain, tending the seedling nurseries, and
         to promote social justice and empower female
                                                          creating compost to fertilize the soil, as well as harvesting,
         coffee producers.
                                                          de-pulping, fermenting, and drying coffee; they are rarely
          Café Femenino now sources coffee from nearly    involved in selling the coffee, receiving income for the work  MARCH/APRIL 2023 | ISSUE 29
         2,000 female farmers across Bolivia, Brazil,     they do, or deciding how the money earned will be used.
         Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru,
         Rwanda, and Sumatra.





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