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.
20 Years ICP: About the Relevance of Collaboration in the Coffee Sector
International Coffee Partners (ICP) was founded in 2001 by dedicated coffee companies to address the challenges of smallholder coffee farming families together. Now, 20 years later, dedication and joint activities remain important to ICP Shareholders. But...
Addressing Impacts of Climate Change on Coffee in a Pre-Competitive Manner
As founding members of the initiative for coffee&climate (c&c), we at International Coffee Partners (ICP) believe in pre-competitive collaboration to address the challenges of climate change on coffee production. Climate change is a global challenge and...
20 years ICP: A pre-competitive approach to coffee sustainability
At the beginning of International Coffee Partners (ICP) stands the idea that, if everyone in coffee sustainability is working alone, not enough can be achieved for smallholder coffee farming families. Only together things can be changed systematically and with a...
Must see! Ugandans support gender equality in smallholder households through drama
In Uganda, coffee is widely viewed as a man’s crop because to grow it, you need to own land and men are typically the heirs of inherited land. This means that even though in most cases it is the women in coffee growing households who do most of the agricultural labor...
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...