International Coffee Partners 12 years, 24 000 stories
23.4.2014
Roughly 70% of the world’s coffee comes from smallholdings, mostly with an area of less than two hectares. Growers’ earn a scanty living because of small harvests, low productivity and quality, soil erosion, problems with selling, etc.
Improving the skills and wellbeing of small producers is of great importance to the future of the entire coffee sector. International Coffee Partners (ICP), which is comprised of Paulig and five other European coffee enterprises, has done 12 years of practical work to improve the living conditions and earnings of coffee growers.
To date more than 24,000 growers in the coffee-producing countries of South and Central America, Africa and Asia have taken part in projects lasting 3-5 years.