Producer/Curator:

Emmanuel Rusatira

Baho Coffee owns and runs 10 washing stations across Rwanda, located in different coffee-growing regions with different quality potentials, and two others in Burundi. The company, which sells small-holder farmers’ coffee to clients around the world, has more than 100,000 members, including producers. It also partners with farmers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help them to…Read More

Producer/Curator:

Angelica Bertram

Established in 2019 in Berlin, Germany, Woolis imports specialty-grade green coffee (a cupping score of 84 and higher) from Mexico and delivers it to roasters in Germany and other European nations…Read More

Producer/Curator:

Fikri Raihan

Although Indonesia is one of the oldest coffee-producing countries, producers there are in the middle of developing its own specialty coffee industry within the country, which is different from the development of the specialty coffee industry in Africa and Latin America. The low elevation of the land and the traditional processing methods of Sumatran style are not exactly the best environment to…Read More

Producer/Curator:

Xu Yue

For Yunnan Coffee Traders, specialty coffee consists of three components: quality, repeatability and scalability. These values drive YCT’s production and sourcing of coffee in China’s southwest province of Yunnan, where they sell to domestic and overseas markets...Read More

Producer/Curator:

Mohammed Danish Ali

Under the banner of Caffeine Nirvana, Danish Ali runs a coffee farm named Zoya Estate in Keserke, a village in Chikmagalur, southwestern India. For generations, coffee production has been a family business for the Alis, dating back over 250 years…Read More

Producer/Curator:

David Sewell

Panama as a coffee producing country is often associated with high-end coffees like Geisha. Top-flight coffees are grown at the hands of producers with cutting-edge technology and marketed as luxury brand items. On the other hand, despite the favorable natural conditions for coffee production, not all producers are so successful. Some struggle to keep their farms afloat…Read More

Producer/Curator:

Alejandro Valiente C

CaféNor is a dry mill located near Santa Ana, El Salvador, run by local producers under the leadership of Alejandro, whose family has been involved in coffee production for four generations since the 1800s. The dry mill has only been in operation for a short period and producers visit the mill every day to hand over their coffee to Alejandro. Alejandro’s work has received high praise from roasters…Read More

Producer/Curator:

Sebastian Wiersma

An email from CAFESMO landed in our inbox at the beginning of 2022. It said the group found out about TYPICA’s platform through the introduction of an Amsterdam-based roaster. It was a pleasant surprise to know that there are producers in Honduras as organized and as committed to creating a sustainable coffee industry as CAFESMO. The samples we received soon afterwards were high…Read More

Producer/Curator:

Nadine Rasch

Primavera Coffee is a specialty coffee exporter founded in 2013. Primavera Coffee has built relationships with small-scale producers in Huehuetenango and Fraijanes, which are said to have potential as coffee-producing regions in Guatemala, and they share the appeal of these areas with the world. The company has…Read More

Producer/Curator:

Juan Boyan Guarachi

It is not easy for us foreigners to connect with coffee producers in chaotic environments like Bolivia. Politics, culture, power relations, human relations, and the harsh natural environment are all intertwined and drag us further and further into chaos. The most famous Bolivian producer is Agricafe and the rest of the…Read More

Producer/Curator:

Biniyam Kassa

In a traditional coffee producing country, major changes are afoot. In Ethiopia, an increasing number of young coffee producers are gaining a morale boost, with the easing of ECX regulation and the start of the Cup of Excellence. Among them is Biniyam Aklilu. We got to know Biniyam through the introduction…Read More

Producer/Curator:

Heleanna Georgalis

Heleanna Georgalis, the director of Moplaco, was the first curator for TYPICA. When I visited Ethiopia the year before last for the first time, Heleanna was the only person that I could get an appointment with. She accepted us even though we had no experience in the coffee importing business. She took care of…Read More