Origin
Stories from the countries and farms where coffee is grown, told with the people who grow it.
10 stories
Rewriting Value
Kenyan coffee is world-class; the system that sells it was built by people who believed Kenyans shouldn’t grow it.
Luca Powell ( text ) &
Carl van der Linde ( images )
¿Pero por qué Pacamara?
I’ll never forget my first time roasting a pacamara. As a barista, I had been enchanted by its complex floral aromatics, lively—electric, even—acidity, and impeccable structure.
Pan-Africa: Kitchens of the Sub-Sahara
As the sun set in Zimbabwe’s lush Honde Valley, I watched kids push car tyres up and down the street, racing each other through the village. In Africa, most often, less is more.
Malawi
Some coffee origins are still in the process of becoming.
Zambia
How do you regrow a stagnant coffee economy?
Zimbabwe
Balanced and smooth, with quiet complexity—this is how Zimbabwean coffee is often described, and it mirrors the crop’s history: fragile, interrupted,…
Ecuador
Farmers are moving away from commodity coffee towards specialty coffee, while Ecuadorians are challenging the dominance of soluble coffee as a…
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Of Infinite Variety: Kenya’s History of Coffee Varietals
Although most of us are familiar with only a few species of coffee—namely arabica, robusta, and perhaps liberica—Coffea is an extensive…
Ghana
Ghana’s coffee industry is awakening.
Thread and cherry: Women’s labour in the Chiapan highlands
In the Chiapas highlands, women carry out the household and agricultural labour that sustains coffee-growing communities.