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Origin & sourcing

Cooperative

A producer-owned organization that aggregates coffee from many smallholder farmers, processes it together, and sells it under the cooperative's name.

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In countries with many smallholder farmers — Ethiopia, Rwanda, Kenya, much of Central America — cooperatives play a central role: they pool cherries from member farmers, run the wet mill, manage drying, and negotiate sales. A cooperative-sourced single-origin is traceable to a region and a co-op rather than to one individual farm, and is often the structure behind a Fair Trade certification.

Related terms

  • Single-origin
  • Fair trade
  • Estate Coffee
  • Direct trade
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