Field Notes
Follow along as we report from the field with first-hand insights into the farmers who participate in our projects, their families and communities and our partners who join us in making a lasting impact.
International Coffee Partners (ICP) Provides Emergency Relief Fund for Smallholder Families After Hurricanes Eta and Iota
Maria Sarmiento and her husband Carlos Fuentes were getting ready to start picking season right before Hurricane Eta landed on the shores of Ocotepeque, Honduras and made 20% of their cherries fall. Weeks later, Hurricane Iota hit, bringing new landslides that further...
Alleviating the impact of COVID-19 on farmers in Uganda and Tanzania
It was not too long ago that Teddy Nakyambadde, a young farmer from Mityana, Uganda, was struggling as a single mother to make ends meet and feed her young son. Today however, she is a dynamic agri-business woman growing and selling coffee, tomatoes, maize and beans...
ICP Theory of Change ready for download
ICP’s vision is to improve smallholder farmer families’ livelihoods. To achieve that, ICP is not here for the short term. International Coffee Partners is committed to long-term projects and long-term impact in the coffee sustainability sector. That’s why ICP recently...
How COVID-19 impacts smallholder coffee farmer families
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis poses long-term risks on the livelihood situation of smallholder coffee farmer families around the globe. When the Coronavirus pandemic started, International Coffee Partners (ICP) remained committed to its support for these families from...
ICP releases Annual Report 2019
International Coffee Partners (ICP) has released its Annual Report 2019. In the past year, ICP-projects reached almost 49,000 smallholder coffee farmer families in six regions around the globe. As a result of the projects, the average coffee production increased for...
COVID-19: Dealing with lost harvests in Ethiopia
Since October 2019, ICP is implementing the CAFE-project in Ethiopias Amhara Region in co-funding with the Austrian Development Agency (ADA). Now in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, ICP field staff is specifically important to the farmer families. “In Ethiopia and...
Indonesia: The Almukatin family in times of COVID-19
It’s a 1 ha farm that belongs to the family of Pak Almukatin. Together with his wife and two daughters, he grows coffee, pepper, chili, ginger and areca nuts. Located in Sebaja village in the ICP-project region southern Sumatra the family lives in one of the major...
ICP in Honduras: “We handled the coffee rust crisis, we will handle COVID-19”
The Coronavirus puts high pressure upon the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmer families around the world. International Coffee Partners (ICP) reacted at a very early stage to the pandemic by informing coffee communities how to protect themselves but also by...
ICP Projects in Central America: Farmers’ Crops, Income, Families
In Central America, International Coffee Partners (ICP) is implementing projects in the Trifinio Region, located in the tri-border are of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Together with our implementing partner, Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) and other partners,...
COVID-19: Simon, a young farmer from Uganda, tells his story
Some weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic started to spread around the world, we meet Simon. He is a young farmer from Mityana, Uganda. We wanted to tell you about his daily life through his own eyes. While we finalized the story, the novel Coronavirus also came to...