We are a proud new member of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, the world’s largest coffee trade association working towards the continuous betterment for the specialty coffee industry.
The SCAA organizes an annual specialty coffee event, which will be held in Portland, Oregon, April 19-22, 2012. Drop by at our booth number [...]
Cropster will be at the FAST Global Forum 2011 – Pioneering Sustainable Value Chain Finance: From Metrics to Markets, Dec. 14 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The Forum is an international event focusing on the development of effectiveness of impact investment strategies worldwide. It highlights the importance of SME finance in the [...]
Continue Reading →On Friday, 04.11.2011, Andreas (Cropster) won the “Architects of the Future” award, an Austrian initiative started by the organization Waldzell in 2005. “Architects of the Future” is a global community of young, social entrepreneurs who support and learn from each other by sharing knowledge and experience. The entrepreneurial focus of these [...]
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TCHO is an innovative chocolate maker based in San Francisco using technology to its fullest. This producer of delicious chocolate differentiates its products into various inherent tastes of the cocoa beans and uses Cropster C-sar to continuously improve its quality. As farmer integration plays a crucial role for TCHO, the chocolate [...]
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“En días pasados (22 y 23 de Septiembre), Cropster.org entrenó a los representantes de las cooperativas de caficultores nicaragüenses CECOCAFEN, CECOCEMAC, CECOSPROCAES, PRODECOOP y Asociación Familia Padre Fabretto, para el manejo y administración de la información generada en la cadena [...]
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At Gimme Coffee in Ithaca, NY we have a pretty simple operation. We have three production roasters (two fluid bed and one drum), three roaster persons, and one facility. Our drum roaster is a LG5 Probat that we roast most of our small lots and reserve coffees on. Sometimes we have only twenty total roasts [...]
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On behalf of Cropster I am excited to announce the launch of Cropster’s brand new carbon footprint module. The new module is integrated in C-sar, Cropster’s information platform for entire high-value crop (e.g. coffee) supply chains. The module provides the possibility to enter data regarding GHG emissions occurring on farm level. Think of [...]
Continue Reading →Between the 20th and 24th of February 2011, I had the pleasure to visit together with our friends of the Klimabündnis two Municipals in the north of the Chocó region. We were invited to talk to coffee and cacao producers in San José del Palmar and El Carmen de Atrato.
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Continue Reading →Cropster will be visiting Biofach 2011 on 16th -18th February. We are looking forward to seeing you there. If you are interested in talking to us let us know in advance and contact office@cropster.org
Continue Reading →A few months ago the swiss based Pakka AG recommended the ambitious GeoFairTrade project. It is an european project in which research and technology developers and private companies develop new social, economic and environmental indicators based on geotraceability.
“It implies linking traditional traceability data with geographical information related to the production areas. Geo-indicators [...]
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