co.hilo’s BLOG
Harvest Time in Jardín: Challenges and Opportunities
This harvest season, the Giraldo family is navigating a mix of challenges and opportunities. With the global coffee market facing uncertainties because of weather conditions in Brazil and Vietnam,…
Monthly News – April / Mai 2024
Hola! In the past month we were focused on the preparations for the General Assembly – we had to prepare our first yearly closing, write reports, and prepare the…
co.hilo Gathering Aug/Sep 2023
This blog post is one of our monthly newsletters for our members and subscribers. We really value transparency, so we would like to share this with everyone. The process of…
Coffee prices in 2023
In 2021 and 2022, when we spoke about coffee prices, it was usually to say that it was the highest in history. Month after month, the historical price record was…
We founded a cooperative. Now what?
In February 2023, we officially founded the co.hilo Kaffeekollektiv cooperative, and since then, we can have members join us. We're in September, and we have around 35 people who have…
Costs increase. And prices too?
A message from co.hilo, as it is adapting. The market of coffee is unstable and very good at exploiting the coffee producers. Over time, prices for farmers soar sky-high, and…
Co.hilo Systems Practice
“The sustainability challenges we face on the planet are multifaceted, complex, and interconnected. Understanding them and addressing them effectively requires a holistic “systems” view that is still largely absent from…
Colombia’s Domestic Reference Price for coffee hits a historic high
July 27 was a historic day for coffee producers in Colombia, as the domestic reference price for parchment coffee reached an all-time high of 1,905,000 COP per carga. Just 2…
For tax-free fairly traded coffee!
We are glad to introduce and show our support to a very important initiative here in our co.hilo-Blog. We have ONE Germany as guests to tell us more about their…
2020, a year in learnings.
We asked five of co.hilo's team members to share their reflections about this unusual year, and which learnings do they take from it. Martín. This year left me with so…
Un co.hilo del que tirar.
A short story about our visit to Jardín in December 2019, by André Volpato. 1. A small step into the future. Martín cuts his monologue short, suddenly aware of his…
Co.hilo, Fresh Coffee News 2020
Co.hilo began 2020 full of positive energy.After talking to many experienced people within the coffee business, we crunched our business plan numbers, worked on our roadmap for this year, and…
