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North Carolina Triangle area cafes and restaurants will highlight Café Femenino Coffee for a week-long celebration of International Women’s Day starting March 8. Our cafe and restaurant partners will bring...

Café Femenino Coffee is proud to highlight the work of 178 women coffee producers in the Huehuetenango region of Guatemala with a new single-origin coffee.  Our new coffee is sourced...

It took a great effort across the coffee supply chain to bring Erlita's exceptional microlot coffee to you, but the results were worth the extra care. This very limited edition...

To celebrate the winter holidays, the women farmers of Café Femenino have come together to offer their first holiday blend called Feliz Navidad.

Café Femenino Coffee disrupts coffee’s traditional economic system by paying women coffee farmers directly for the coffee they produce. All Café Femenino Coffee comes exclusively from women-owned and operated farms. Proceeds from the sale of Café Femenino Coffee are paid directly to the women farmers who invest in their farms, communities and families. 

Since their first meeting in 2003, the women of the Café Femenino Peru Program have marshaled widespread social change into their communities. The hard work and courage of the women of Café Femenino Peru mean the women in their community have more decision-making power, more income, and more dignity than ever before.

The Café Femenino Coffee movement started in Peru in the late 1990s. While women have always been crucial to coffee production in Peru, men traditionally held the economic power. In 2003, 464 female coffee producers united to change this dynamic. Café Femenino was born.

In 2015, the women of the Kokowagayo co-op in Sumatra found their own voice. Empowered to strive for gender equality, the women of the cooperative separated their coffee from the men’s during the 2014 growing season and began the first women-only cooperative in Sumatra.