Weight: 12oz or 5lb

Roast :  Medium

Process :  Washed
Region :  Bolaven Plateau
Producer :  928 families of Bolaven Plateau Coffee Producers Cooperative
Variety :  Catimor
Altitude :   1000-1350 masl

Story from Origin : Created in 2007 with the support of the Lao government and the French Development Agency (AFD), the “Bolaven Plateau Coffee Producers Cooperative” or CPC is a 100% farmer-owned organization. Spread over three districts (Paksong, Laongam and Thateng) and 44 villages, the 928 families that make up the CPC have an average of 5 hectares of plantations. 801 families are organic certified or in the process of becoming organic certified.

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AGPC's mission is to improve the quality of life of coffee smallholders families of the Bolaven Plateau and fight against poverty in the area. To overcome the daily difficulties during the pre-harvest period, a large part of the Bolaven Plateau producers, especially the poorest, are used to sell their coffee to local intermediaries in the form of loan sharking, with high interest rates and prices set well below market prices. This is to avoid this exploitation system that the CPC contract loans from international financial institutions such Alterfinor  Rabobank Rural Found. The CPC then provides its members with advances based on production forecasts of each collective wet processing centers and at the same level as local market prices. Loans at 0% interest rates are also granted to members in the form of inputs (organic certified compost). Members can also apply for loans to improve their facilities through a specific fund created thanks to the Fairtrade Premium.

Please note: to ensure your coffee arrives as fresh as possible coffees are roasted to order. Coffee is roasted Tuesday, packaged Wednesday, and shipped on Thursday. Orders will be filled as quickly as possible depending on availability but please note that order arriving after Monday may be filled the following week.