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EquaI Exchange Cocoa
Rich chocolate heaven...what more could you want from a cocoa?! It is ideal for baking your favourite sticky chocolate brownies, or just having as a hot drink whenever the mood takes you. Grown in the Dominican Republic by small hill farmers of the Confederacion Nacional de Cacaocultores Dominicanos (CONACADO) representing some 9,000 small-scale growers, most of whom who farm less than three hectares.
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EquaI Exchange Dark Roast
This original dark roasted coffee is blended from carefully selected high-grown arabica beans from the mountains of Peru and Mexico. It has a deep body and velvety smoothness. A perfect after-dinner or early morning wakeup coffee.
The Peruvian beans come from the Central de Cooperativas Agrarias Cafetaleras (COCLA). It has produced and exported washed Arabica coffee since 1967. Their coffee plantations are in the Quillabamba region in the Cuzco Department of Peru, east of the Inca City of Machu Picchu. COCLA is farmer owned including more than 5,000 producers from 30 organisations including co-operatives, associations and grower committees. The farmers have approximately 12,000 hectares, growing exclusively Arabica coffee, with an annual production of 7,000 tonnes of coffee.
Those from Mexico come from the Union de Ejidos "San Fernando", which was formed in 1984 by small-scale coffee growers in the San Fernando and Ocozocoautla municipalities of Chiapas state, Southern Mexico. It was formed with the aim of solving the financial problems of its members, marketing coffee and providing technical assistance. The organisation has 1,700 members, each producer has an average of 1.5-two hectares of land.
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EquaI Exchange Decaffeinated
A medium roast 100% Arabica from the mountains of Peru and Mexico, decaffeinated using Carbon Dioxide process to gently remove caffeine from coffee beans. Compressed to a liquid state, --- the compound we exhale with every breath --- is a natural solvent that grabs caffeine and pulls it from the bean. Because carbon dioxide adheres only to caffeine and not to the elements that give coffee it's great flavour, CO2 decaffeinated has more zing than any of the other decaffeinated coffees we have tried. It is naturally decaffeinated to be 99.9% caffeine free.
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EquaI Exchange Colombian Beans
Grown by the Farmers of the Nuevo Futuro or New Future Co-operative, this medium roasted, well balanced coffee has a rich, smooth flavour.
Nuevo Futuro is a small primary co-operative in Cauca province of Colombia. It is growing with the demand for organic coffee and has additional land in organic transition. The co-operative was initially set up as a coca substitution project based on the higher incomes sustainable from organic coffee. In 1996 they expanded their field of activity to the communities Argelia, La Vega and Buenos Aires. In 2005 48 new producers of the communities (Sotara, Timbio, Santander de Quilichao, Tambo and Payan) have been officially affiliated to the organic coffee project ANF. At them moment ANF consists of 116 farmer families from nine communities. All together they form the Asociacion Nuevo Futuro.
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