Transparency

our report for 2021

This is a wrap-up of our year 2021. The coffees we’ve used and the price we have paid for them.

To us staying fully transparent is highly important. We want to know where our ingredients come from and most importantly who we work with. Relationships and people are what got us in to specialty coffee business in the first place and relationships will always have that first place in our priorities.

Staying transparent to you, to our customers and other stakeholders, is also very important to us because we want to help the industry to understand the value of coffee and the amount of labor that goes into it.

FOB isn’t a perfect measuring pole by any means. But it works as an indicator of the price staying in the country of origin.

Here we try to open also the prices behind FOB and how they are formed. Where the money goes and how the prices are formed. And most importantly why the prices are different in specialty coffee, all the way from the tree to the cup.

Latin America

Brazil: 2108kg

Colombia: 199.5kg
Costa Rica: 70kg

El Salvador: 1318.7kg

Guatemala: 1525.2kg

Honduras: 544.3kg

Mexico: 203kg

Nicaragua: 1956.2kg

Producers: 13

Kilos: 7924.9

Weighted average FOB: 6.57$/kg

C-market average price: 3.73$/kg

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Initiated by the famous FAF (Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza), Bob-o-Link is a unique sustainable coffee project aimed at changing not only the way coffee is produced but also more generally the lifestyles of an entire community. The project, set up by Marcos Croce at his farm, is now supported by over 50 Brazilian producers.

Brazil
Bob-o-link

Producer: Faf / 50 farmers of the Bob-o-Link collective
Origin: Mococa
Variety: Yellow Bourbon
Processing: Natural
Altitude: 1100 masl
Importer: Belco
Beginning of the relationship: 2019
FOB Price: 5,51$/kg

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The Mulheres do Caparaò is an all-women coffee producer project started by Josimar Sodré, also known as Lalá. This project started out as a joined effort of five women coffee producers and has since grown to bring together over 20 producers from the same region.

Brazil
Mulheres do Caparaò

Producer: ~20 women farmers from the Mulheres do Caparaò project
Origin: Minas Gerais
Variety: Catuai
Processing: Natural
Altitude: 1000-1200 masl
Importer: Belco
Beginning of the relationship:
Faf: 2019 / Mulheres do caparaò: 2021
FOB Price: 5,51$/kg

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Don Jose has been working with coffee for over 25 years. His passion for coffee was born already in his childhood when he worked together with his family and learned about coffee cultivation. He and his wife Doña Selina saved for many years until they were able to buy their farm El Mirador over 10 years ago. The farm that they always dreamed of. Now with 9000 coffee trees planted in their 3 hectares farm, coffee has become the main income for their family.

Colombia

El Mirador

Producer: Jose Luis Blanco Abril
Origin: Cerro Azul Paramo
Variety: Castillo
Processing: Natural
Altitude: 1530 masl
Importer: Belco
Beginning of the relationship: 2020
FOB: 13,38$/kg

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Costa Rica

Gesha Herbazú

Fully washed Gesha

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El Salvador

Ruffatti-Batlle Honey

Honey processed Bourbon

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El Salvador

Ruffatti-Batlle 120h

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Guatemala

Buena Vista

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Guatemala

La Bolsa

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Guatemala

Mochilita

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Honduras

Cresencio

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Honduras

Gerardo Moreno

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Honduras

Ceiba

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Mexico

Lorenzo Intzin

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Nicaragua

Dipilto

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

Africa

Burundi: 512.7kg

Ethiopia: 1925.64kg
Kenya 605.38kg

Rwanda: 613.5kg

Producers: 9

Kilos: 3657.22

Weighted average FOB: 6.57$/kg

C-market average price: 3.73$/kg

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Initiated by the famous FAF (Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza), Bob-o-Link is a unique sustainable coffee project aimed at changing not only the way coffee is produced but also more generally the lifestyles of an entire community. The project, set up by Marcos Croce at his farm, is now supported by over 50 Brazilian producers.

Burundi
Heza FFS

Producer: Long Miles Coffee Project

Farmer: multiple small-holder farmers

Origin: Kayanza, Burundi
Variety: Bourbon
Processing: Natural
Altitude: 1600-1700 masl
Importer: Direct trade / List+Beisler
Beginning of the relationship: 2016
Direct trade price: 11,80€/kg

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The Mulheres do Caparaò is an all-women coffee producer project started by Josimar Sodré, also known as Lalá. This project started out as a joined effort of five women coffee producers and has since grown to bring together over 20 producers from the same region.

Burundi
Heza PB

Producer: Long Miles Coffee Project

Farmer: multiple small-holder farmers

Origin: Kayanza, Burundi
Variety: Bourbon
Processing: Natural
Altitude: 1600-1700 masl
Importer: Direct trade / List+Beisler
Beginning of the relationship: 2016
Direct trade price: 11,80€/kg

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Don Jose has been working with coffee for over 25 years. His passion for coffee was born already in his childhood when he worked together with his family and learned about coffee cultivation. He and his wife Doña Selina saved for many years until they were able to buy their farm El Mirador over 10 years ago. The farm that they always dreamed of. Now with 9000 coffee trees planted in their 3 hectares farm, coffee has become the main income for their family.

Ethiopia

Khalid Shifa

Producer: Khalid Shifa
Origin: Goma, Jimma
Variety: JARC varieties (Jimma Heirloom)
Processing: Honey
Altitude: ~2100 masl
Importer: Belco
Beginning of the relationship: 2019
FOB: 8,02$/kg

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Ethiopia

Nizamu Abamecha

Fully washed Gesha

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Ethiopia

Tabe Burka

Honey processed Bourbon

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Ethiopia

Zinabu Abamecha

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Kenya

David Maguta

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Kenya

James Gachihi

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Kenya

Martin Gichahu

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Rwanda

Cyumba

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Rwanda

Ngororero

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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Rwanda

UZN

Anaerobic natural processed Bourbon

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