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Shoring Up Gender Equity Efforts during COVID-19: An Innovative Journey to Engage Farmers and Companies
The workshop has allowed me to understand and reflect on the situation of gender equity in our cooperative. With this understanding, we were able to identify our weaknesses, and propose actions we can take to generate more equitable conditions and opportunities for...
Connecting Buyers and Suppliers for Impact on Gender Equity in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Women are responsible for much of the coffee quality processing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Photo credit to Lucy O’Bryan Photography) In May 2021, the Partnership for Gender Equity (PGE) hosted a webinar titled...
Keeping Gender Equity a Priority During the Pandemic — A Virtual Learning Journey
A COMSA farmer, Al Liu, and Maritza Midence of Highland Coffee Company, a Tegucigalpa-based broker visiting in March 2018 For a long time, I thought the only way for specialty roasters to participate in gender equity-related initiatives was to purchase coffees...
Scaling Gender Equity in Coffee and Cocoa: The Gender Equity Index
At Equal Origins, we have developed powerful strategies to support producer organizations through capacity-building programs which include the Gender Action Learning Systems (GALS). Since the onset of COVID-19, we adapted our work to include an additional approach...
The Latest Buzz
- EFICO: GENDER EQUITY INDEX TOOL – A Common Language and Framework for Action on Gender Equity (11/21/22)
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Coffee Intelligence: Equal Origins launches tool to empower female coffee producers (3/9/22)
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Perfect Daily Grind: Gender Equity in the Democratic Republic of Congo Coffee Sector (4/29/21)
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Allegro Coffee: Three Women Changing the Game in Coffee
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Perfect Daily Grind: “Voices heard for the first time”: Women in coffee co-operatives
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Good Growth Partnership: Gender Mainstreaming in Global Agricultural Supply Chains Can Accelerate Good Growth: What Works and For Whom?
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Roast Magazine: Gender Equity in the Coffee Value Chain: What Companies are Doing to Close the Gap
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Blog post: Rainforest Alliance Sustainability Day: Making Coffee Future Proof
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The Safe Platform Coffee Minute: Women in the Coffee Sector
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CQI article: The Partnership for Gender Equity’s Latest Research Explores Engaging the Next Coffee Generation
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Harvesting Transformation from IDB Safe Platform: Interview with Kimberly Easson
Press Releases
The Gender Equity Index
An Innovative Tool to Benefit Coffee’s Hidden Workforce Washington, D.C., March 8, 2022 – Equal Origins is proud to announce the launch of a new tool to promote gender equity in coffee and cocoa: the Gender Equity Index. Women play a crucial role in producing coffee....