When we hear the term “changing behaviour” or when we engage in conversation about it, it’s always from the perspective of Western consumers. Drink organic coffee and pay a fair
FairChain’s new insights on closing the income gap for small farmers Welcome to our series on FairChain’s rebuilding process, our 2018 lessons, and the interventions we have planned starting this
Red Bracelets and Mobile Apps We live exciting times my friends, as harvest season is almost there. In order to prepare the smallholder farmers for harvest, we sent our Master
This week our FairChain training squad headed out to Limu for a new event in the series of farmer training. Topic: soil fertility. That’s a main element in our curriculum,
The last months where like sitting front row in a roller coaster. Our BlockChain project really took off, hitting national and international front pages. All nice but FairChain is not
In the midst of the turmoil of the Ethiopian MP stepping down and an official state of emergency our loyal FairChain trainees gathered in Jimma. On the agenda: nutrients, shade
Do Ethiopian coffee farmers take some time off after the intensive harvest period? No sir, right after all the red cherry is picked, it is time for pruning. Who else
We are still harvesting! Joost is literally buried in heaps of coffee cherry. The supply is immense and unstoppable. Since November 11th, the FairChain farmers have been providing us with
From cherry to cup within a week. In our FairChain, that is perfectly possible. Marten (Fairfood), Jan (Wageningen University & Research) and Mark (FairChain) were picking some fresh red cherry
Meet Shamshedin A/Goja A/Diga. A dedicated coffee farmer from the village of Suntu. With his wife he has 5 children and 2 hectares of coffee. On October 1st of this
Last week we told you about the Triple FairChain Premium we are paying to our farmers in Limu, Ethiopia. This of course is no unconditional premium. Instead, it is an
In this serie of FairChain Harvest blogs, we’ll now show you how we discovered that we actually pay a FairChain Premium three times. 1. Twenty percent We thought we paid
