Rising Costs in Coffee: Producer Perspectives

On Saturday, June 18, 2022, the Women in Coffee Project hosted a panel event! This was our theme:

Due to many global stresses, the price of coffee on the commodity market has been extremely volatile and has mostly trended upward. The price to purchase coffee has gone up, but for many coffee producers, the expense to produce coffee has increased at an even greater rate. The purpose of this panel event is to offer visibility for the producer experience when it comes to talking about price and attempt to underline some of the more vulnerable aspects to price transparency that are often overlooked.

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Debido a muchas tensiones mundiales, el precio del café en el mercado de productos básicos ha sido extremadamente volátil, y en su mayor parte ha tenido tendencia al alza. El precio de comprar café ha aumentado, pero para muchos productores del café, los gastos de producir café ha aumentado a un ritmo aún mayor. El propósito de este evento de panel es ofrecer visibilidad para la experiencia de unas productoras en esta conversación sobre el precio, e intentar subrayar algunos de los aspectos más vulnerables a la transparencia de precios que a menudo se pasan por alto.

The panel was in Spanish and English with live interpretation available.

Panelists included:

Katia Duke, a specialty coffee producer and previously coordinator of the sub-chapter in Copán, Honduras, of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance.

Ana Sofia Narvaez, Relationship Builder for green coffee exporter & importer Caravela Coffee, originally from Nicaragua but currently based out of Guatemala City.

Cynthia La Rue, a 4th generation coffee producer from Jinotega, Nicaragua.

Please note this conversation is almost completely in Spanish! If you or someone you know would be interested in supporting our work through translation and knows how to edit videos, please get in touch. Thank you for your patience while we work toward making all this content accessible to all!