Women worked very hard on the family coffee farm, (without considering that their day does not end in the fields but continues at home, taking care of the family, cooking, cleanning and more.) but always is their husband who would speak with coffee buyers and sell the crop.

The majority of the world’s coffee is grown by smallholder farming families, where women and men often work side-by-side to nurture and harvest the crop. But overwhelmingly, it’s men who hold formal title over the land, and this contributes to other inequalities in coffee: women are less likely to participate in farmer cooperatives, receive agricultural training and services, access credit to invest in their farm, market the crop, or control the earnings from coffee sales.

Highlighting the role of women coffee farmers

While women supply a large share of the labor in coffee production, this contribution frequently goes unrecognized. Addressing women’s lack of access to agronomy training and limited household decision-making power can help to address that.

In recent years we have been talking about nothing but the environment, organic coffee etc, noble causes that we all suppoort and agree, but little or nothing about the women who work in the fields without any recognition or support. This is the ongoing work that the non-profit association IWCA does around the world to Support Sustainable Livelihoods for Women in the Global Coffee Supply Chain.

What we have highlighted is just an introduction to the amazing work done by the IWCA around the world. If you want to know more or give your support like us