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What We Do

Cooperative Coffees matches the green coffee needs of our 23 owner-roasters with small-scale coffee farmer cooperatives; establishing direct, equitable Fair Trade relationships between these roasters and growers. We strive to promote Fair Trade and sustainable development alternatives in both the North and the South, while continuing to sell the highest quality coffee on the market.

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"Me encanta la cosecha de cafe!"-Hilaria Ramos Hndz. of Michiza

Producer Cooperatives


We import coffee from producers in eleven countries around the world. Read more about each country and the cooperatives we work with in :

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                -Bolivia
                -Colombia
                -Dominican Republic
                -East Timor
                -Ethiopia
                -Guatemala
                -Mexico
                -Nicaragua
                -Peru
                -Rwanda
                -Sumatra (Indonesia)

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Our Approach


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As a Fair Trade organization, being transparent is important. Follow the bean by checking out our paperwork and documents associated with Fair Trade importing, or follow our step-by-step introduction to the process we follow for importing coffee.

Learn about some other work that gets done by CC's sister coop:

  • Best Practices facilitates  roasters and producers' cooperation on development projects, sustainable business practices and more

  • Communications works on promoting Fair Trade as a movement, and includes everything from outreach materials to participating in Fair Trade events.


Our Committee Work


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Our main task as an importing coop, is to import coffee.  However, we have a host of other mandates that are crucial to trying to be the best Fair Trade coffee importer out there.

A lot of this work is accomplished through our committees:

To see how Cooperative Coffees is structured, follow this link


Our Travel


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Visiting producer coops is a huge part of what we do.  Whether we are starting a new relationship with a producer partner, or striving to nourish a healthy and reciprocal working relationship, we feel that face to face time through travel engagement is important. Here are some of our recent reports: