Colombia – FTO Women Producers – Manos de Mujeres – FUDAM – Narino – FLO ID 38797


Washed
B14686

Colombia – FTO Women Producers – Manos de Mujeres – FUDAM – Narino – FLO ID 38797 B14686


Specs:

Source:

Colombia

Region:

La Union, Nariño

Farm:

Various women smallholder farmer members of FUDAM

Variety:

Castillo, Caturra, Colombia

Altitude:

1600–2100 masl

Processing:

Washed

Program:

Women Coffee Producers

Notes:

"Soft, sweet and clean with chocolate, lemon and toffee flavors."

Score:

84 points

Price/Bag:

$4.64 per lb

$232.00 per bag

Out of stock


Background:

Fundación Agraria y Ambiental Para el Desarrollo Sostentible (FUDAM) is a 300-member association of organic-certified (and Rainforest Alliance–certified) growers that was founded in the year 2000 by just seven producers who shared a vision of sustainable agriculture as well as environmental protection and development. This group of smallholders lives in and around the small municipality of La Unión in Nariño, where the terrain differs greatly from in other coffee-growing areas like Cauca: Instead of walking up from the town to the farms, as elsewhere, here the towns are at such high elevation that the farms are typically lower elevation, surrounded by high peaks and rough road.

Organization leader Raquel Lasso has established a subgroup for women, called Manos de Mujeres, focused on empowering projects as well as gender-queity in payment for women growers in the cooperative.

The farmers pick their coffee during the day and depulp it in the afternoon, typically fermenting the lots for 16–24 hours dry. The coffees are generally washed two or three times before being dried either in small "casa elbas," mechanical dryers, or parabolic dryers. The mechanical drying takes between 25–40 hours, while the other drying structures can take up to 15 days.

For more information about coffee production in Colombia, visit our Colombia page.