We alone can’t force the coffee market to stabilize or raise green coffee prices, make the global food system keep prices down, or stop climate change, but we can collaborate with coffee farming communities to design a customized blueprint of strategies and activities for building a food secure future.
Who We Are
Food 4 Farmers is a nonprofit organization that raises funds for and collaborates with small-holder coffee farming cooperatives throughout Latin America, partnering them with local and regional experts to strengthen local food systems, build thriving food hubs, diversify income, create economic opportunities, cultivate local leadership, and implement sustainable farming practices that promote biodiversity and ecosystem resiliency throughout Latin America.
What We Do
Food 4 Farmers uses the power of collaboration to build lasting, community driven solutions to food insecurity. We help coffee-farming families put nutritious food on their table every day and diversify their income source through strategies that fit their needs with activities such as food security workshops, community promoter development, home and school gardens, beekeeping, fruit tree planting, and farmers markets.
Our Partners
The coffee cooperatives with whom we work, who we call Community Partners, are powerfully committed to developing strategies that reflect their capacity, culture, and challenges. We connect them with local, implementing experts, who we call Implementing Partners, that are firmly rooted in the region, and train their coordinators and promoters to build confidence and trust with families. Together, they provide training and oversee monitoring, data collection, and other tools.
Most coffee farmers are dependent on coffee alone, a product that provides inadequate income, yet they lack the resources needed to invest in alternatives.
We alone can’t force the coffee market to stabilize or raise green coffee prices, make the global food system keep prices down, or stop climate change, but we can collaborate with coffee farming communities to design a customized blueprint of strategies and projects for building a food secure future.
Even though the cooperatives we work with produce fair trade, organic-certified coffees, most families have insufficient land to produce enough coffee to achieve an adequate livelihood. Green coffee prices have been hovering around $1.00 a pound, dropping 29% since 2010, while food prices have skyrocketed, climbing anywhere from 41% to 67% during the same period in the countries where we work. Most smallholder coffee farms are less than 12 acres and produce less than 6,000 lb of green coffee a year, leaving families to live on less than $6,000 a year. The combination of a volatile market, low coffee prices, high food prices, lack of diversified crops, limited opportunities, and climate change creates food insecurity to overcome.
Who We Are
Food 4 Farmers is a nonprofit organization that raises funds for and collaborates with small-holder coffee farming cooperatives, partnering them with local and regional experts to build thriving food hubs, diversify income, create economic opportunities, and implement sustainable farming practices that promote biodiversity and ecosystem resiliency throughout Latin America.
Food 4 Farmers partners with Latin American coffee-farming communities to cultivate a food-secure future.
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What We Do
Food 4 Farmers uses the power of collaboration to build lasting, community driven solutions to food insecurity. We help coffee-farming families put nutritious food on their table every day and diversify their income source through strategies that fit their needs with projects such as food security workshops, community promoter development, home and school gardens, beekeeping, fruit tree planting, and farmers markets.
The USDA defines food insecurity as a lack of consistent access to enough food for every person in a household to live an active, healthy life. Coffee farming families face many causes of food insecurity such as a volatile market, low coffee prices, high food prices, lack of diversified crops, limited opportunities, and the devastating effects of climate change.
Our Partners
Our Community Partners, the coffee cooperatives with whom we work, are powerfully committed to developing strategies that reflect their capacity, culture, and challenges. We connect them with local, implementing experts we call Implementing Partners, that are firmly rooted in the region, and train their coordinators and promoters to build confidence and trust with families. Together, they provide training and oversee monitoring, data collection, and other tools.
