Articles tagged #COFFEE
Articles tagged
#COFFEE

A New Future Brewing for Hambisa

Hambisa is married with three sons and one daughter. To make a living, he farmed as well as collected and sold firewood, but it wasn’t sufficient to support his family. Hambisa struggled to make his land productive. Land degradation and high soil acidity prevented most farmers like him in Sasiga from growing enough food

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More than a Cup of Coffee

When you brew your morning coffee is there a face, a person, a family that comes to mind? There is a good chance that the beans you used were grown on a small farm tended by a family that has cultivated coffee for a few generations. There’s also a good chance that the family experiences the daily struggles of poverty.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to the Best Coffee of Your Life

You may remember that our last issue of Hope Notes began with an interview with the Waktola family of Sasiga, Ethiopia. They enthusiastically told us that having coffee with friends and neighbours was the number one thing they did for fun. So we decided to dig a little deeper into where that comes from.

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