What we do
Origin Partnerships
Origin Partnerships
Partnerships measured in years, not in projects
Partnerships measured in years, not in projects
We act as long-term partners to cooperatives and local organizations rooted in coffee landscapes. From training and quality control to export readiness, market access, leadership development, and new technologies, we walk alongside our partners through each stage of their journey.
We act as long-term partners to cooperatives and local organizations rooted in coffee landscapes. From training and quality control to export readiness, market access, leadership development, and new technologies, we walk alongside our partners through each stage of their journey.
The East Africa
Coffee Lab
Where the journey to market begins
30+ cooperatives across six countries — Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, DR Congo, Tanzania, and Malawi — each finding their way to the global specialty market on their own terms. Our cupping and training lab in Kigali is the anchor: a place where quality is tested, stories are documented, and cooperatives prepare for what the market asks of them. We captured years of training into a Coffee Playbook series, practical guides on everything from sample preparation to conference navigation.
Haitian Hope
A long-term exchange between coffee movements
Since 2011, we have supported the Haitian coffee movement through a long-term partnership with Singing Rooster and their exporter Kok ki Chante. This collaboration is rooted in a shared commitment to strengthening Haiti’s coffee sector from the ground up. Drawing on lessons from our work in Rwanda, we create awareness of the importance of sustained investment, market access, and capacity building in Haitian cooperatives.
Since 2011, we have supported the Haitian coffee movement through a long-term partnership with Singing Rooster and their exporter Kok ki Chante. This collaboration is rooted in a shared commitment to strengthening Haiti’s coffee sector
from the ground up. Drawing on lessons from Rwanda’s experience of building and growing its coffee industry, we create awareness of the importance of sustained investment, market access, and capacity building into Haitian cooperatives.
To these cooperatives coffee is a symbol of hope.
Sacred Landscapes
The beating Heart of the World
Our work with ANEI through the Sacred Sierra initiative in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is built as a long-term learning partnership. As guardians of this territory, these communities see it as their responsibility to protect natural resources and live in balance with the environment. For them, this is not only a place, but the literal beating Heart of the World. For ANEI, coffee and cocoa are not commodities, but examples of an alternative to extractive models of trade. We believe that biocultural identity and traditional ecological knowledge within Indigenous communities are a vital and often missing piece in how sustainability is understood and practised.
Regen Coffee
Fostering resilient partnerships
We are actively building partnerships across emerging coffee origins that reflect a deeper commitment to regeneration. Through our partnership with Raddis and RVO Netherlands, we support tribal farming communities in the Eastern Ghats of India, where coffee cultivation is closely connected to forest ecologies, Indigenous knowledge systems, and biodiverse landscapes.
Through collaboration with CBI Netherlands, we are developing partnerships in Indonesia to support coffee communities in Aceh and North Sumatra. Together, these initiates create pathways between producers and markets, grounded in promoting regenerative agriculture.
The East Africa
Coffee Lab
Where the journey to market begins
Thirty+ cooperatives across six countries — Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, DR Congo, Tanzania, and Malawi — each finding their way to the global specialty market on their own terms. Our cupping and training lab in Kigali is the anchor: a place where quality is tested, stories are documented, and cooperatives prepare for what the market asks of them. We captured years of training into a Coffee Playbook series, practical guides on everything from sample preparation to conference navigation.
Haitian Hope
A long-term exchange between coffee movements
Since 2011, we have supported the Haitian coffee movement through a long-term partnership with Singing Rooster and their exporter Kok ki Chante. This collaboration is rooted in a shared commitment to strengthening Haiti’s coffee sector from the ground up. Drawing on lessons from our work in Rwanda, we create awareness of the importance of sustained investment, market access, and capacity building in Haitian cooperatives.