Direct Trade

The economic model of direct trade, together with the Fair Trade certification exemplified by Sol Colibrí Coffee, creates a closer relationship between producers and consumers.

Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world after oil.

Imagine how many times coffee is traded before it reaches your cup. Every step of that trading diminishes the farmer’s priority in the coffee economy.

Sol Colibrí Coffee comes directly from us, the farmers. We are accountable to the environment we live in, to the people who work with us, and to you. With every cup of Sol Colibrí Coffee you are supporting our craft, our pickers and employees directly.

As grower, processor, exporter, importer, and distributor we eliminate the intermediaries and are empowered by the benefits of complete ownership over our craft. Direct trade supports us in making environmental and social changes that are necessary and relevant to our community and to the planet.

Sol Colibri reaches far beyond traditionally produced, high quality coffee beans...

This unique directly-traded coffee:

• Empowers farmers through direct involvement in the entire coffee process and ensures them access to the economic benefits of the coffee economy.
• Strengthens the local economies of all the asociations arround the country by keeping the processing, roasting and packaging under our control.
• Supports environmentally-sound stewardship of the coffee lands through Certified Shade-grown and Organic practices.
• Transforms the communities through alliances that fund many different projects ( Biodiesel, Tourism, Agroecology, Education ).
• Offers a handcrafted, delicious coffee with the classic taste of the exclusively designed blends of our own master roasters.

Sol Colibri Coffee is committed to the collective efforts of its contributing farmers and pays the highest price to the farmer for beans of any venue, fair trade or conventional, in Latin America.

From the ground up to your cup, Sol Colibri is owned and operated by the farmers who live the coffee experience and are the best care-takers of their farms and communities.

Sol Colibri Coffee offers you the pure enjoyment of a delicious cup of highland coffee handcrafted by the farmers from coffee cherry to sun-dried bean to roasted morning brew.

Sol Colibri Coffee’s mission is to support organic coffee farmers by providing them with the economic means to become educators and stewards in their communities in Costa Rica.

The Socio Economical Context – The Reality of The Costa Rican Coffee Farmer:

The reality that the small organic farmer in Costa Rica is facing now is their number is 25% lower and yearly production has decreased in 6000 sacos. This is indicative of the fact that coffee requires stages of processing from coffee cherry to brew, and that the profitable market is distant from the place of origin.

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