Tag Archives: El Pinal

219. CAFE success story: Seeing is believing in El Salvador

2011-11-22 Comments Off on 219. CAFE success story: Seeing is believing in El Salvador

The El Pinal cooperative was established in 1980.  During the first 30 years of its existence, the organization paid for its coffee to be processed at a commercial mill.  This meant higher operating costs and less control over the quality of their coffee.  When the CAFE Livelihoods project started in early 2009, we met with […]

154. CRS (and friends) at SCAA 2011

2011-04-25 Comments Off on 154. CRS (and friends) at SCAA 2011

Tomorrow I travel to Houston for the annual gathering of the SCAA.  CRS has participated in some capacity in every SCAA since 2004, but this year is special.  It marks our first time participating in Symposium, our first time with a booth on the show floor (#441) and the largest CRS delegation ever.  With new […]

148. El Pinal – Heads in the clouds, feet on the ground

2011-04-13 Comments Off on 148. El Pinal – Heads in the clouds, feet on the ground

The members of the El Pinal cooperative have their heads in the clouds, literally.  Their offices and their mill are perched on a narrow peak of the Cordillera del Bálsamo that is as often as not wrapped in mist and clouds.  But the organization is seeing its future clearly and thinking in ways they haven’t […]

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