How green is your coffee shop?

Posted by Cafédirect, May 22nd, 2012, Comments (0)
EcoToolkit
Do you own a café and want to make it greener? If so our newly launched EcoToolkit will help you find out what more you can do. When we first carried out a study to identify the environmental impact of our products; we were surprised to find out that … Read more

A storm in a coffee cup…

Posted by Cafédirect, May 14th, 2012, Comments (0)
storm_coffee
We’re often reminded that climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face globally today. And yet sometimes we can get lost in the overwhelming scale of the problem.  But, if like us, one of the highlights of your day is a great cup of coffee, then the challenges … Read more

WeFarm comes to life!

Posted by Cafedirect Producers Foundation, May 2nd, 2012, Comments (0)
wefarm
The Cafédirect Producers’ Foundation (CPF) is proud to introduce our new WeFarm Video! Created by award-winning agency Airside, the video comes shortly after our we completed our first international WeFarm pilot project, where 30 farmers in rural Peru spent two days exchanging knowledge and ideas with 15 smallholder tea farmers … Read more

Cafédirect shortlisted for the European Business Awards for the Environment!

Posted by Jacquie, March 21st, 2012, Comments (0)
Wolfgang receives the award
 We are very proud to announce that we have been selected as a UK finalist in the European Business Awards for the Environment! The finalists are shortlisted from all the winners and runners up of the UK’s most prestigious environmental awards. Only a select few can go through to … Read more

Landslides and coffee: our first Producer Conference of 2012

Posted by Cafédirect, March 7th, 2012, Comments (0)
Landslide
Each year Cafédirect holds producer partner update meetings in three corners of the globe: Latin America, Central America and Africa. They are always a great opportunity for those of us based in London to meet with representatives from of each of the cooperatives and really understand what’s going on with … Read more

Free energy-saving kit from Ecotricity

Posted by Emily, February 24th, 2012, Comments (0)
Ecotricity flag
Did you know that a large part of the carbon footprint of a cup of our tea, coffee or cocoa  is generated through the actual making of hot drinks? Whether that’s a kettle at home or a machine in a coffee shop, the energy used to prepare a cup … Read more

Cafedirect at COP17

Posted by Cafédirect, December 9th, 2011, Comments (0)
By Wolfgang Weinmann, Head of Strategic Development at Cafedirect What’s the new buzzword around climate change for the agricultural sector? No, you won’t guess – its ‘Climate-smart agriculture’! That’s what was on everyone’s lips during my days at COP17, the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. The … Read more

You, me and working trees – the International Year of Forests

Posted by Cafédirect, November 15th, 2011, Comments (0)
BusyTrees
2011 is the United Nations’ International Year of Forests, and the World Agroforestry Centre is running a major campaign called BusyTrees to educate the public about the importance of agroforestry.  We invited BusyTrees to write this guest post to let us know a little bit more about the project. What … Read more

Visiting Cesmach at their Annual General Meeting!

Posted by Paul, October 19th, 2011, Comments (0)
Cesmach AGM
I recently had the fantastic opportunity to have a presentation at the CESMACH Annual General Meeting (AGM); this cooperative is one of our partners in Mexico, and is a proud producer of organic and sustainable coffee. Cesmach members live around the buffer zone of “El Triunfo Natural Reserve” and a … Read more

Guest post from Cafedirect Producers’ Foundation

Posted by Cafédirect, October 3rd, 2011, Comments (0)
Today we have a guest post from Kenny at the Cafédirect Producers’ Foundation updating us on one of the projects at origin. As some of you may know, we not only pay growers a fair price for their crop (as per fairtrade regulations), but in addition, we also fund a programme of … Read more
 
 
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