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    The People Behind Relationship Coffee: Claudia Rocío “Claudy” Gómez, Manager, Colombia

    by Ana Valencia on October 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM

    For over a decade, Claudia Rocío Gómez, or “Claudy” as most people know her, has helped shape Sustainable Harvest’s work in Colombia, supporting...

    The People Behind Relationship Coffee: Isabel “Chabe” Cerqueda, Relationship Manager, Mexico and Central America

    by Ana Valencia on September 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM

    For more than two decades, Isabel "Chabe" Cerqueda has been at the heart of Sustainable Harvest's work in Mexico and Central America. From her...

    Caficauca, the Co-op in Colombia Helping Farmers Replace Coca with Coffee

    by Ana Valencia on August 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM

    In the mountains of southern Colombia, many rural communities face difficult choices, with coca (used to make cocaine) cultivation often being one...

    Tolima, one of Colombia’s coffee jewels

    by Claudia Rocio-Gomez on March 16, 2022 at 9:09 AM

    Colombia is a country closely associated with coffee—and it’s no wonder why. The incredible quality and wide range of flavors of Colombian coffee...

    Meet the SH team: QC at Origin

    by Ana Valencia on October 27, 2021 at 3:46 PM

    A few weeks ago, we released the first piece in a series of posts featuring the faces of the Sustainable Harvest team. Our goal with this series is...

    Voices from the Field: What is Happening in Colombia and How is it Impacting Coffee?

    by Jorge Cuevas on May 27, 2021 at 9:30 AM

    For almost a month, political and civil unrest has surged in Colombia. Since April 28, protests that were initially sparked in response to a...

    An Update on Colombia: Adaptability, Resilience, and Emerging Regions

    by Alfonso Carmona on May 4, 2021 at 8:00 AM

    There are few coffee growing countries more iconic than Colombia. Colombia produces the most Arabica coffee out of any country in the world and ranks...

    Harvesting Under Quarantine: One Co-op's Creative Approach

    by Claudia Rocio-Gomez on June 9, 2020 at 12:15 PM

    FCC's organic fertilizer plant providing farmers access to high-quality fertilizer while under quarantine.

    For the vast majority of coffee farmers,...

    A Peace Factory

    by Jorge Cuevas on November 5, 2018 at 1:57 PM
    To any self-professed specialty-coffee professional, Colombia is an important reference point. It’s an iconic origin that helped define the world’s...

    The Roya Recovery Project

    by Sara Morrocchi on March 28, 2013 at 2:07 PM

    These past three months we have all seen the reports of the devastation that Coffee Rust Disease (Roya in Spanish) has caused in coffee communities...