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PCA Admin
- Apr 25, 2018
- 2 min
Sinirangan Coffee Shop: Brewing Hope, Sowing Dreams
Sinirangan Coffee Shop is not your ordinary coffee shop. Certainly, it serves wonderful coffee like the ordinary commercial coffee shop...
PCA Admin
- Apr 14, 2018
- 3 min
Cabuyao City revitalizes production of Rizal’s favorite Robusta coffee
Inspired by the historical account of Dr. Jose P. Rizal’s favorite Robusta coffee some 130 years ago, the city government, in...
PCA Admin
- Nov 12, 2017
- 4 min
Maramag coffee’s bittersweet tale of revival
BUKIDNON, Philippines – At the sight of the bountiful green coffee berries, the visitors from the north who were mostly coffee growers...
PCA Admin
- Nov 12, 2017
- 5 min
The women of Kape Maramag
Maramag, Bukidnon -- A petite woman with nimble feet, that’s how some people see Lilibeth Puerto Galendez, 49, this empowered woman of...
PCA Admin
- Sep 27, 2017
- 1 min
BASILIO, inventor of KAPE Iligan's coffee roaster
"I live with the man who once said to me, 'I hope you wouldn't mind if I hold hands with a multitude of people.' I confess it's not...
PCA Admin
- Sep 1, 2017
- 3 min
Empowering grassroots women through transformational partnerships in agricultural value chains
The agriculture sector relies on women in many different ways. Despite their contributions in the agricultural workforce, however, women...
PCA Admin
- Jun 3, 2017
- 4 min
Hope unleased from a bottle
Poverty, while real and serious, is the standard excuse for insurgency and violence. Nowadays, the forces are much darker, the victims,...
PCA Admin
- Mar 13, 2016
- 5 min
Baclaran's Sinirangan is not your usual coffee shop
MANILA -- For many, business means making profits, and expansion, a means to earn more. But Sinirangan Coffee, located near the base of...
PCA Admin
- Mar 5, 2016
- 2 min
From soil to cup: Coffee farmers become barista-entrepreneurs
Coffee farmers in various communities across the country get the most out of their labor with the knowledge empowering them to process...
PCA Admin
- Nov 5, 2015
- 1 min
Roasting Coffee
A worker at the Kera coffee shop in Kidapawan City roasts coffee beans from the farmers of the Mt. Apo highlands, from whom they source...
PCA Admin
- Sep 15, 2014
- 6 min
A coffee that yields hope to Typhoon Yolanda survivors
If coffee gives you a certain feeling of easiness or restlessness, for typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) survivors in some...
PCA Admin
- May 11, 2014
- 5 min
World Fair Trade Day 2014 – May 10
Fair Trade People, 2014 World Fair Trade Day’s theme shines the spotlight on Fair Trade producers, people buying their products and other...
PCA Admin
- May 10, 2014
- 4 min
Fair Trade must offer hope, transform coffee industry - producer
Eager farmers belonging to a cooperative here milled around their open air coffee shop on a hill outside of Manila waiting to show...
PCA Admin
- Jul 17, 2012
- 2 min
Program teaches communities the brew for success
The Pinagdanlayan Farmers Association Inc. (PFAI) in Dolores, Quezon uses almost half a hectare of land to grow vegetables and crops...
PCA Admin
- Nov 30, 2011
- 2 min
Ifugao Coffee - "Tanging Yaman," Indeed
Who does not know “Tanging Yaman,” “Hindi Kita Malilimutan” and many other church hymns penned by Fr. Manoling V. Francisco, SJ? What...
PCA Admin
- Apr 7, 2011
- 2 min
Moro group embarks on coffee venture, eyes 3,000 hectares of Arabica farms
TACURONG CITY (MindaNews/6 Apr) – A private Moro group is eyeing to plant Arabica variety coffee in at least 3,000 hectares in the next...
PCA Admin
- Jan 30, 2011
- 5 min
Introducing Fair Trade High Above the Clouds
In the last posting, I wrote about Vie and Basil Reyes’ approach to localizing Fair Trade as a step-by-step process. I was interested to...
PCA Admin
- Jan 22, 2011
- 8 min
To Make Coffee Sustainable
In late 2006, I met a “Development Specialist” from Japan. He was working with a minority group in the highlands in Vietnam and that they...