The BioFach 2012 was a great experience for Cropster. We were really delighted about all the interest people showed in our products and projects. We had many great talks to passionates about organic agriculture, coffee producers and roasters, chocolate makers, consultants and farmers from all over the world.
Our newest project “Lokalwert” gained most attention [...]
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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 [...]
Continue Reading →We were touring, together with our project partners CIAT and CRS, through the “coffeelands” of Central America and Mexico between 20th September and 4th October 2010. Within the CUP project – which represents about 7.000 farmers – we (Norbert and Klaus) visited the four involved countries Nicaragua, [...]
Continue Reading →Pues bien, los pequeños productores tienen una importante participación en la producción agrícola global.
En la región de África subsahariana por ejemplo, constituyen aproximadamente el 90% de la producción agrícola (Dunstan 2001). En India representan una proporción cada vez mayor de la canasta familiar y el PIB agrícola: productores con menos de dos hectáreas fueron [...]
Continue Reading →Muchas veces mencionamos en nuestro discurso a los pequeños productores: hablamos de la importancia de apoyarlos en el acceso a nuevas formas de mercado o nos referimos a iniciativas orientadas al mejoramiento de su calidad de vida. Así pues, ¿qué tal si tratamos de definir lo que es un pequeño productor?. Una tarea nada fácil, [...]
Continue Reading →Una gran acogida tuvo el lanzamiento del Proyecto Agricultura Específica por Sitio Compartiendo Experiencias (AESCE) durante la tercera edición de Agro del Pacífico 2010 en Cali, Colombia.
Desde un mismo stand, Cropster, CIAT y Asohofrucol presentaron esta innovadora iniciativa que no sólo promete grandes cambios para el futuro del sector frutícola en Colombia, sino que [...]
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