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.
Success on the horizon for Ugandan Cooperatives
In Ugandan smallholder coffee farmer communities, Farmer Organizations, also known as Cooperatives, have proven effective in increasing families’ household income through better market access and better prices. They also play a key role in building coffee farmers’...
The role of Cooperatives in climate change adaptation
Coffee is a lucrative cash crop for smallholder farmers around the globe but the impacts of climate change remain a serious threat. The climate risks range from intense droughts to unpredictable rain patterns and their impacts are very problematic including increased...
Teachers become exemplary farm entrepreneurs: ICP’s impact in Uganda
Paul Bhumba (47) and his wife Jane (37) are among 1.7 million Ugandan families who grow coffee as a key livelihood source. But for years, the full harvest potential of their 4-acre coffee farm has remained untapped. They would harvest about 2 bags (200kg) of coffee...
ICP releases Annual Report 2020
The International Coffee Partners (ICP) Annual Report 2020 has been released. While we all struggled with the COVID-19 pandemic, ICP-projects could still reach almost 28,000 smallholder coffee farmer families in 2020 in six regions around the globe with to the...
International Coffee Partners: COVID-19 reveals importance to support smallholder families beyond coffee
International Coffee Partners (ICP) urges to be prepared for post-COVID-19 support for smallholder coffee farming families and their production. Giuseppe Lavazza, Vice-Chairman of Lavazza Group, Italy, and one of the ICP shareholders says: “We really need to be very...
ICP supports 2,400 smallholder families after Hurricanes Iota and Eta
As a response to the devastating impact of Hurricanes Iota and Eta in Central America last November, International Coffee Partners (ICP) provided 40,000 EUR as an emergency relief fund. The funding is assisting affected families in the Western parts of Guatemala and...
20 Years ICP: Main takeaways from online celebration
International Coffee Partners (ICP) was founded in 2001 by dedicated coffee companies to address the challenges of smallholder coffee farming families together. Celebrating 20 years of ICP, representatives of the coffee companies came together to both look back and to...
What Smallholders Recommend on 20 Years of ICP
Since 2001, International Coffee Partners (ICP) has worked to improve the livelihoods of 100,000 smallholder coffee farming families in 13 countries. To celebrate 20 years of hands-on smallholder family support, ICP asked smallholder coffee farming families to answer...
Celebrating 20 Years of ICP: The importance of humanistic values and entrepreneurship in smallholder coffee farmer support
Climate change, a pandemic, less interest of youth in agriculture – numerous challenges are threatening our daily cup of coffee. And more importantly: They are constantly looming over those families who grow and harvest the beans that give us our morning energy boost....
20 Years of Impact: ICP’s work with coffee farmers in Tanzania
Meet Emil Augustino Mzumbwe, a coffee farmer from Mbeya, South Tanzania. Like many farmers in his village, Emil grew up in poverty with minimal education. In the ‘80s, he inherited his father’s coffee farm which was one of Emil’s main sources of income when he married...