咖啡种植社区的可持续振兴

This WeChat tweet is a summary and review of the content of the second lecture in the Sustainable Business Series, "Sustainable Revitalization of Rural Coffee Farming Communities".

我们经常听到有关于环境保护的话题、有关于可持续性的话题——这是目前最前沿的话题。然而，可持续性具有两面性：一面是环境，是我们的星球；另一面是人们的生产问题。当在不太富裕的农村地区，做可持续发展的事情时，我们应该像关注地球环境一样的去关注这些地区的人民。这不仅会产生很大的回报，而且还能创造共同利益。如果我们持续为人民做善事，那么也有机会以可持续的方式为地球做善事。

We often hear about sustainability mostly in the context of conservation of the environment and of course climate change in perticular is currently something at the forefront of this topic. However, sustainability is a coin with two sides like any other coin: one side of that coin is obviously the environment is our planet, and the other side is the livelihood of people. When it comes to doing something sustainable particularly in rural areas that tend to be less wealthy than urban areas, then paying as much attention to the people as we pay to the planet is important mandatory, it is also not only rewarding,but also mutually supportive if we do well for the prople.You also have a very good chance to do well for the planet in a sustainable fashion.

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• 缺乏教育､基础设施和资金导致产品质量低劣，价格低廉

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1、节约用水 Water conservation

以精湛的技术和世代的经验生产专业级咖啡代替商业级水洗咖啡。咖啡果实不再需要通过非常耗水的发酵过程分解，咖啡农将经过基础发酵后的咖啡果放在阳光下将整个果实干燥，进行厌氧发酵。这种发酵方式由于不需要加水，也不需要冲洗果肉，较传统发酵方式更为环保，并且还能创造独特的风味。

One solution to this that we've been teaching farmers over the last six years is to not produce commercial grade washed coffees but to strive to produce specialty grade. What that means is that the coffee fruit is not broken down through a very high water consuming fermentation process. But it is dried as a whole coffee cherry under the sun, potentially after some fermentation but not for the breakdown of the new search but for the creation of flavors anaerobic fermentations with no addition of water and with no need to flush the cherries later.

2、有机农业&废物管理 

       Organic farming & Waste management

将生产咖啡时产生的废物——干果壳、干皮，加工成饲养动物的天然有机肥料。这成为农业社区的第二条收入来源。因此，咖啡农不再使用化学肥料和化学产品来对抗杂草和昆虫，而是利用中美洲和拉丁美洲其他咖啡种植社区开发的技术，来有效控制害虫情况。

The dried fruit shells and skins, which are waste from coffee production, are processed into natural organic fertilizer for raising animals.This could become a second line of income for the farming community. So looking into not bringing out chemical based fertilizers not bringing out chemical products against weeds and insects and using techniques that have been developed in other farming and coffee farming communities in Central America and Latin America to control the pest situation effectively

3、重新造林 Re-forestation

咖啡是一种经济作物。人们常常通过砍伐森林，来增加咖啡园的生产率，从而增加收入。实际上，咖啡是一种需要被阳光直射，却不能出现供水不足的一种植物。因此，在天然林下混合种植咖啡灌木，将提高咖啡果实的质量，使得咖啡园的产值整体提高。

Coffee is a cash crop and unfortunately like many cash crops the you often practice method is to cut down the forests and replace them with the cash flow.Now with coffee in this particular situation coffee is a plant that cannot really endure the stress of having direct sunlight with low supply of water it is not good for the quality of the coffee.And so it's actually helpful to have a mixed plantation of coffee shrubs under natural forests as a shade grown coffee that reduce number of coffee increases.The yield of those trees and it increases the quality of the fruit of those trees,hence again increasing the value of the crop that is being produced. 

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1、政府 Government

• 可靠的监管框架 

    Dependable regulatory framework

• 土地分配和公共基础设施 

    Land allocation and public infrastructure 

• 快速的投资审查和批准流程 

    Speedy investment review and approval process

• 补贴 

    Subsidies

2、学术界 Academia

• 借鉴现有研究 

    Access to existing research

• 对可行品种的长期研究 

    Long-term research into viable varietals

• 种子的法律规定 

    Legal provision of seeds

• 田间试验的方法学支持 

    Methodological support of field trials

3、私营企业 Private Enterprise

• 以市场为导向的商业模式 

    Market oriented business model

• 筹款和投资 

    Fundraising and investment

• 运营领导力 

    Operational leadership

• 市场准入

    Market access

咖啡公社购买链接

Link to buy coffee from Coffee Commune