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Women Lima Coffee

The Women Coffee project with Lima Coffees puts a price premium paid directly to the contributing women farmers for each lot. Lima Coffees brings together 110 coffee-growing families led by women, heads of their groups. relatives and representatives of their own farms.

This program was born with the purpose of motivating coffee growers, and future generations of women, to empower themselves and take the initiative to improve their quality of life, to excel and make a sustainable life based on agriculture, reaching their full potential in the areas in which they wish to develop, having as a starting point the production of sustainable coffee.

This organization seeks to provide the necessary tools to make this possible. 

There’s a workgroup made up of 2 representatives of the group of associated women of Lima Coffee

Representante – Isabel Paz Correa – Zona: Chirinos

Secretario – Olga Calle Chumacero – Zona: Ihuamaca

100% of the premiums go toward the women of the two groups, with 70% earmarked to help organize the group, and the other 30 percent to develop a program for empowerment of women at work, a program for economic development, savings and investment, a program of leadership development and leadership training, and a program for comprehensive well-being and gender equality.

Rony Lavan of Lima Coffees is an ambitious and quality-driven cupper who has spent his career trying to carve out better and bolder coffees from small producers in Peru. While the country is emerging as a specialty market after many years of focusing on bigger lots and certifications, Rony's passion is with identifying and developing the top scores and the best cups. Green-coffee buyer Piero Cristiani met Rony before Piero was buying coffee for Cafe Imports, and the two have not only stayed professionally connected all these years, but they have also become great friends. Rony and Piero worked hand and hand to bring this new project to life. 

Cajamarca

Cajamarca is a semi-dry, semi-cold, tropical highland of Peru with very fertile soil at high Andean mountain elevations. All of these factors contribute to the potential of specialty coffee production in the area, which is growing. Smallholder producers farm on 2-3 hectares of land, many of which practice organic farming. Most farmers in the area work independently, but the recent increase in cooperatives has been effective in increasing the quality of coffees produced in the area.