The Fair Tracing Project

“Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers, a Portland, Oregon-based green coffee importer that provides sustainable, higher income markets for coffee farmers around the world. Sustainable Harvest was the early pioneer in the sustainable specialty coffee niche of fair trade and organics. It serves quality-oriented specialty roasters in North America and Japan. Sustainable Harvest is known in the industry for its triple bottom-line approach, with a focus on social, environmental and economic impact on the coffee growing communities it serves. The company sources and imports the highest quality certified organic, fair trade, and shade grown coffee from small farmer cooperatives in Latin America and Africa.”

Please Note: The Sustainable Harvest website can usually be best viewed in Firefox.

Don’t miss the videos linked to the site!

Utz Kapeh Certification

“UTZ CERTIFIED is about… professional coffee growing, traceability & trust … Coffee farms and cooperatives use UTZ certification to prove that they grow their coffee professionally and with care for their local communities and the environment. UTZ CERTIFIED empowers growers with knowledge concerning good agricultural practices and the global coffee market. Certification also provides growers with a stronger position in the market due to the growing buyer demand for certified coffee.”

The “story” behind the coffee, and thus its traceability, can also be navigated through their site.    

Bridging the Global Digital Divide. Coffee – Technology – Haiti.

“Alcatel-Lucent joins with Cafés Malongo, the University of Nice and ComCEL to offer broadband Internet access to the isolated rural areas of Cap Rouge in Haiti.
This pilot project called “Traçabilité du Café” (Coffee Traceability) will give Haiti’s coffee cooperatives Internet access from their plantations by applying WiMAX and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technologies. By having such access to the latest information technologies, they will be able to monitor the traceability of their fair trade labeled production and sell their coffee on optimum terms by reducing the number of intermediaries.”