Fairtrade Coffee

Pennine tea and coffee are suppliers of a wide range of Fairtrade Coffee including our best selling fairtrade coffee the Fairtrade Filter Coffee Sachets which are three pint pour and serve coffee sachets holding fairtrade coffee filter ground. Most popular selling in our Fairtrade Coffee range is the wholebean coffee from Topa De Coda which are espresso coffee blended espresso coffee beans made using Fairtrade origin coffee from This espresso coffee has been carefully constructed using Fairtrade origin Arabica coffees from:

Co-operative dos Caficultores de Regiao de Lajinha, a small Brazillian producer / exporter located in the Lajinha Minas Gerais region of Brazil.

Co-operatives de Caficultores de Aguadas is a Colombian co-operative that exclusively organises small growers, founded in 1966 to help growers collectively market their coffee. Aguadas joined Fairtrade in 1996 to ensure Stability of volume and export price and to use the social premium for social projects, development of organic agriculture and diversification. Aguadas has a coherent development policy that now goes far beyond coffee, but remains committed to co-operative ideals. The co-op is made up of 1125 members, in 29 communities, producing 3613 tonne of coffee.

The presence of Aguadas has seen these communities benfit from:-

• Work competences for coffee production, a training program that serves 25 young people (the farmers children) for the future benefit of the community in terms of Jobs, creating bonds with educational insitutions and the quality of coffee farmer knowledge.
• Funeral insurance for coffe growers and their families
• Maintenance of roads necessary for communication
• Free health service days
• Program computer courses for those associated with the co-operative
• Farmers entitled to 50% discount on medical and orthdontic assistance
• Farmers provided a basic package of animals and seeds for them to produce food to be consumed on a daily basis and to sell the remainder
• Every year 30 adult growers get the chance to get a primary school education in literacy programs

The general manager Juan Carlso Garcia Medina encompasses the mission of the co-operative in this statement:-

Our co-operative is an interdependant organization whose aim is to improve our economical, social and cultural conditions of living.

In addition Fairtrade Robusta coffee is used in this blend from Karagwe District Co-operative Union ltd (KNCU) in North West Tanzania. This co-op has 16000 members 5000 of which are women. This is unusual as until recently women had no say in the growing of coffee but the appointment of 29 year old Alivera Kiiza as the first women manager has changed that. Alivera started work as an office assistant in the marketing department of KDCU in 2000 but quickly moved on to become the manager. One of her first achievements was to get the coffee c-operatives to allow women farmers to own coffee trees so they could become full members of the coffee co-operative, like in many countries coffee was seen as a man's crop.

KDCU uses the premium from Fairtrade to run secondary schooling and conduct workshops on strengthening the organisation and women's roles. This recent change has stregthend the communities by the education of women and made for a much more integrated society.

This top selling Fairtrade Coffee can be purchased online from Fairtrade coffee espresso beans supplier Pennine Tea and Coffee.

In our Fairtrade Coffee range we also stock a most poular Fairtrade and Organic Espresso Coffee which is a wholebean coffee for use in the espresso coffee machines and bean to cup coffee systems. Our Fairtrade Organic coffee is sourced from two Peruvian co-operatives

Cepicafe - Established in 1995 this is an association of 35 small scale coffee co-ops with 4584 members in the Piura region of North West Peru supplying a total of 168 containers approx 33000 bags of Fairtrade coffee per Annum. Before becoming Fairtrade registered, the farmers sold their coffee to intermediaries at less then half the market price. Many farm workers left the area. The co-operative has enabled the quality of life of the coffee growing families to improve and is an important contribution to the sustainable development of the region.

Cecovasa - Established in 1970 and licensed by Fairtrade in 1993. Cecovasa is comprised of 8 co-operatives and it has 3200 members in the Lake Titicaca region of Peru and supplier 188 containers approx 23000 bags of Fairtrade coffee per annum. Fairtrade certification allowed the co-op to export its product directly to US and European markets and gain a fair price. The c-operative is now so strong that intermediary buyers no longer work in the area. Fairtrade has enabled members of both of these cop-operatives to benefit greatly, both in social and occupational aspects.

Social:-By education of thousands of workers childeren with many now studying in secondary and higher education programs. Womens programs are widespread to provide forums for discussion and training on such topics as first aid, leadership, gender roles and animal husbandry.

Occupational:-Major investments have taken place in the quality of the coffee produced by training, quality systems and environmental initiatives including contributing funds to build a hydroelectric plant at nearby Tunquimayo which will supply energy to the region. Modernisation of equipment is also major investment with computers and printers, as well as more traditional farming equipment of de-pulping machines, pruning saws and humidity scales.

Fairtrade Coffee is also available to purchase in instant coffee form, the best selling variety of this online in the uk is the Fairtrade coffee instant in single serve sticks which are ideal to make a single cup of Fairtrade coffee using just hot water. For bulk fairtrade coffee requirements then the most popular product we supply is the Fairtrade Coffee instant in bulk tins which are ideal for offices where Fairtrade Coffee can be spooned out into the cup to make a hot fairtrade coffee drink. All Fairtrade Coffee can be purchased online from Pennine tea and coffee Fairtrade Coffee supplier in the UK.