Our Pledge to Transparency
Traceability
Traceability is the foundation of a transparent and sustainable coffee supply chain. For specialty green coffee importers, it ensures that every bean’s journey—from the farm to the roaster—can be verified. This empowers buyers to confirm ethical sourcing practices. By prioritizing traceability, coffee importers not only build trust with roasters and consumers but also champion the industry’s movement toward greater sustainability and accountability.
Transparency
Transparency is the cornerstone of ethical and sustainable coffee sourcing. By openly sharing details about the coffee supply chain—from sourcing and pricing to production processes—importers foster fairness and ethical practices. Transparency reveals critical information, including the price paid to producers, the origin of the coffee, and its journey from farm to cup, ensuring that fair wages are prioritized.
Sustainability
Sustainability is at the heart of the specialty coffee industry, ensuring that coffee production meets today’s demands without compromising the needs of future generations.
It is important to focus on conserving natural resources, minimizing waste, and reducing carbon emissions while promoting eco-friendly farming methods. All these key players help to mitigate the effects of climate change on coffee production.
Economically, sustainability ensures that farmers receive fair trade pricing that provides them with a comfortable income and the resources needed to maintain a thriving farm. Supporting economic fairness strengthens coffee-growing communities, helping them withstand challenges like market instability and fluctuating coffee prices.
Socially, sustainable coffee production fosters safe working conditions, education and community development. It encourages long-term resilience, ensuring that producers alongside their communities can prosper for generations.
Embracing sustainability is not just a moral imperative—it’s essential for the future of coffee.
Overall Commitment
At La Finca Distribution, we are driven to transform the specialty coffee industry by empowering small-scale coffee farmers, specifically in Nicaragua. Our focus is on building a sustainable, transparent, and traceable model that allows for small producers to have a place on the global stage. By working closely with farmers and adapting to the challenges alongside them, we hope to preserve Nicaragua’s rich coffee communities for future generations.
Key terms:
Producer: A coffee producer grows, harvests, and processes coffee beans. They ensure coffee cherries into high-quality green coffee beans ready for the next stage in the coffee supply chain.
Coffee variety: Coffee variety is a specific type of coffee plant within the Arabica or Robusta species. Each variety has unique characteristics, like flavor, size, and how well it grows in certain climates.
Processing: Coffee processing is how coffee beans are removed from the fruit (called a cherry) and prepared for roasting. It involves steps like drying, washing, or fermenting the beans to bring out their best flavors. The main methods are washed (wet), natural (dry), and honey process.
Price Paid to Producer: Money directly given to the producer.
Freight on Board (FOB): the price of coffee up until it is loaded onto the ship in the exporting country. Once the coffee is on the ship, the buyer takes over responsibility for shipping and any additional costs (like insurance, customs, and transportation to the final destination).