Tag: colombia
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Can participative pricing work to improve coffee farmer incomes?
An experiment by Azahar Coffee in Colombia uses participative pricing choice. Can it work to provide coffee farmers with better-than-living-income?
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Reflections on the Fulbright application process
Several colleagues asked me about the Fulbright process, prompting me to describe my personal experiences with applying to Fulbright Colombia.
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Reentry, readjusting, reintegrating, reflecting back home
Three weeks after returning from Fulbright research on coffee in Colombia, I’m reflecting on being home and what’s coming next.
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Hasta la próxima, Colombia…
Having given my final presentation at Uniandes, I’ve got some goodbyes and thank yous to offer. We’ve done a lot of work over four months, yet the work is just beginning…
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48 hours of fieldwork in Pitalito
It was a quiet month, but the last fieldwork fieldtrip to Pitalito hit the ground running, giving us more insights on the c-price and the buying and selling of coffee, locally.
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55 hours of fieldwork in Neiva
Getting COVID at the end of February/beginning of March was rough for my work here, as I was supposed to get to the two-day Producer Roaster Forum in Guatemala City at the beginning of the month. Instead, I lost an opportunity to meet other folks from coffee-producing countries and be able to add their insights…
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A break in the action (for family tourism), and then, COVID
It’s a busy month with meeting folks from the Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros and then a visit from my entire family, but it ends with me getting COVID.
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Coffee is a fruit
I got the opportunity to take my first ever trip to a coffee farm. But firsthand context left me with more questions than answers on unlocking equity.
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Starting to tackle the research
It’s now been about three weeks since I landed here in Bogotá and I feel much more comfortable here than I did those first culture shock-ing couple of days. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, though my Spanish still is less than good, I’ve gotten the sense of some of the expressions…
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Settling in to the Colombian coffee scene
Since arriving in Bogotá last week, I’ve gotten more comfortable in the city, visited specialty coffee shops, and discussed coffee research with colleagues.