Sustainable Coffee Project Update #2
As coffee production continues to threaten Earth’s remaining high elevation forests, 2023 is proving to be an exciting year for our sustainable coffee program; a.k.a. ‘Global Coffee Solution’. This year we have boots on the ground and planes in the sky!
Since the previous update, our research teams have been working to bring more efficiency and credibility to on-the-ground (and in the air!) data collection from coffee farms. Our biggest news of the year so far:
More Updates
- We met with Dr. Jane Goodall in Montreal this June to discuss next steps in forest-mapping and carbon sequestration science.
- We continue to conduct meetings and presentations with key members of the Honduran government to move forward on the process of legalizing the Yoro Biological Corridor. The response has been slow, but our teams continue to put pressure on officials.
- Our forest conservation students in training have completed their degrees and two of them are now employed with the US Forest Service while continuing work on the Yoro Biological Corridor.
This is a Sustainable Coffee Story
Global Coffee Solution is the evolution of more than 25 years of sustainable coffee development history. Long and unbroken examples of science-based sustainability work of this nature are ultra rare. This particular sustainable coffee project work would not be possible without the committed group of core partners: Mesoamerican Development Institute, Merchants of Green Coffee, the original Cafe Solar (‘Cooperative COMISUYL’) farmer cooperative members, and the farmers of the 20 currently operational IOC pilot coffee farms in Yoro, Honduras.
When I was first introduced to this project, I couldn’t help but be inspired by the sheer passion of these people — proven by their ability to sacrifice everything for the chance that its incredibly altruistic and gigantic undertaking could succeed and really create change. Now, I’m committed to helping however I can. Today, I’m focused on cultivating relationships and channels and that will (hopefully) fuel the final necessary evolution the project’s sustainability: The ability for it to become financially positive so that it can finance itself.
New, sustainable coffee project updates are posted whenever there are significant development to this story. Read the next one here or the previous one here.
