BRAZIL Donas do Cafè – Fazenda Piedade
Women’s production entities incentivized to make a leap toward gourmet and specialty production.
The Donas do Café project was created in Brazil with producers to incentivize women producers engaged in commercial coffee production to make the leap to gourmet and specialty production, and to the benefits that higher selling prices can bring in terms of stability.
The cornerstone of the project is the opening of communication channels between the identified realities and successful women-owned farms, such as Fazenda Piedade.
Women are often cut off from courses and upgrades because coffee cultivation in remote areas is in many cases still a patriarchal reality.
The project therefore offers: courses, mentoring and more, by women, with women, for women.
Sandalj is also “women-owned” and gladly participates in this project to share the know-how of its quality department with donas.
This red Catuaí plot is the fruit of more than 200 hectares in southern Minas. The fazenda is managed by Olga, widow of the founder.