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Mount Sunzu Farm in Zambia: Producing coffee with a small footprint
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences
- Sustainability
- D-USYS
Six years ago, Fridolin Stocker, Luca Costa and Yanik Costa bought an abandoned farm in the north of Zambia. Fridolin Stocker and Luca Costa had met while studying Agricultural Sciences at ETH Zurich. It took them three years to transform the land from a wasteland into a sustainable coffee farm. Today, the team is waiting for their first coffee harvest.
Catuaí - a "coffee podcast": Stories from Brazil's heart of coffee production
- Institut für Agrarwissenschaften
- Sustainability
- D-USYS
Have you ever wondered where your morning coffee comes from? If it's Brazil, chances are it hails from the state of Minas Gerais, where more than a third of the world's exported coffee is cultivated. Researcher Marie Sigrist’s travels in this region inspired her podcast "Catuaí". In our conversation, the social anthropologist explains what motivated her to share her stories from the heart of coffee production.