{"id":5167,"date":"2020-10-27T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/?p=5167"},"modified":"2022-08-01T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:15:03","slug":"bean-equality-narrowing-the-gender-gap-in-coffee-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/bean-equality-narrowing-the-gender-gap-in-coffee-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Bean Equality: Narrowing the Gender Gap in Coffee Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/feature-photo-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5169 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/feature-photo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Over a blue plastic bin, a worker's hand cups a handful of bright red coffee cherries, some dark red, others tinged with bright green.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/feature-photo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/feature-photo-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/feature-photo-1024x427.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/feature-photo-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/feature-photo-1536x640.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/feature-photo-2048x853.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a great time to be a coffee farmer.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s enough turbulence generated by volatile coffee prices, an increase in pestilence and disease, climate change, supply surplus, troubling economic and political turmoil and the resulting lack of workers &#8211; without even beginning to consider equality issues. As one of the world\u2019s most valuable traded commodities, a simple look at the market split between retail value ($83 billion in 2017) and agricultural export value ($19 billion in the same year) shows a sharp discrepancy between the value assigned to the work of those that grow the coffee, versus those that brew it. Once we understand that the export value has been substantially marked up by those that trade and export, we get a hint of how little actually goes back to the producers themselves.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5171\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5171\" class=\"wp-image-5171 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-5.jpg\" alt=\"Pinched in the fingers of one of the coffee producers, a bright red coffee berry matches her red nail polish, and the blurred image of her blue t-shirt with the design of a white tree is visible in the background.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-5-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do\u00f1a Ana Lorena, one of the coffee producers Bean Voyage works with, holding her perfectly ripe coffee cherry.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I first heard of SungHee Tark, she was described as a young Korean woman dedicated to improving access to the coffee industry for female smallholder coffee farmers through a not-for-profit she co-founded in Costa Rica at the age of 23. <em>Just the sort of trailblazer our industry sorely needs<\/em>, I thought; and when I finally met her one chilly November at the Seoul Cafe Show, the largest coffee event in Asia, the rest of the story of this remarkable woman, who forged her own career path through persistence and passion, unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>It takes an impressive amount of courage to start an educational foundation in a highly technical agricultural field in which you have little experience. It takes even more courage, as a young female from abroad, to embark on a self-led mission for gender equality in a highly politicized Central American country. But SungHee was familiar with the issues faced by female farmers, because her maternal grandmother was a lifelong rice farmer. \u201cI had an understanding of what it meant [to be a female farmer] and in Korea back then it was a similar setting to Costa Rica now: very masculine, but even more conservative when it came to gender elements. My exposure to what my grandmother encountered made it a lot easier for me to empathize with the stories of female coffee producers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5173\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5173\" class=\"wp-image-5173 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-6.jpg\" alt=\"A series of wooden boxes used to dry coffee are offset by the majestic blue and green Costa Rican mountains in the distance beyond. Workers in brightly colored shirts and hats stand along the boxes, which are open to the air.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-6.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-6-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A private coffee processing mill displaying raised beds used for naturally drying coffee, Vuelta de Jorco, Costa Rica.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SungHee studied economic development in the USA, and in 2014, she and her classmate Abhinav were given an opportunity to help fundraise for a new community center in Costa Rica. Little did they know this was to be the first time they learned about the coffee industry: this fundraiser trip would change the direction of their careers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>they decided to \u2018unpack coffee on the streets\u2019 back home<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They started out baking cupcakes and putting on dinners in the USA to raise funds, and when they finally went to Costa Rica to make their donation, they happened to arrive right in the middle of coffee harvest season. SungHee\u2019s coffee knowledge until then was limited to knowing that she liked to drink her coffee black. \u201cBut when we got there, the women and youth in the community were telling us \u2018this is how much we get paid per kilogram of coffee\u2019 &#8211; it was something like $3. In my head that just didn&#8217;t add up &#8211; as we were easily paying $3 &#8211; $4 per [brewed] cup.\u201d These producers were getting paid certified fair trade prices, too &#8211; some of the best in the market.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5174\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5174\" class=\"wp-image-5174 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-7.jpg\" alt=\"A worker leans over a blue painted metal container filled with coffee cherries and uses a thin, flat metal yardstick to measure the volume of the container.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-7.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-7-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers at a beneficio (coffee processing mill) measuring the volume of coffee cherries with a yardstick. Producers get paid per fanega, which is equal to a 400 liter container. Rulers are used when the coffee does not fill the entire container.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seeing that the system was not working for the producer, when SungHee and Abhinav returned to the USA they decided to \u2018unpack coffee on the streets\u2019 back home. \u201dWe received a grant from our university to meet with roasters, baristas and coffee shop owners and ask them the question: \u2018what&#8217;s the coffee industry like for you?\u2019 There, at least, was some sort of clarity about what worked and what didn\u2019t. It was in such contrast to what the producers had been responding: \u2018I don&#8217;t even know where my coffee ends up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a thread to begin unravelling the mysteries of the supply chain, they discovered that many smallholder farmers &#8211; specifically female farmers &#8211; didn\u2019t actually know anything about their coffee. \u201cThey told me, \u2018I don&#8217;t know what my coffee quality is &#8211; I just was told to pick red cherries and dry it for this many days.\u2019\u201d SungHee says. \u201cThen that&#8217;s what they&#8217;ve continued doing for years. The successful farmers are often male and they know all the technical information: like, this is the temperature that you need if you want XYZ profile. We asked them: how did you learn? They told us they had attended training. We found women were silently excluded from this &#8211; they were not specifically told they couldn\u2019t come &#8211; but they were never invited.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5175\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5175\" class=\"wp-image-5175 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"A scene inside the kitchen of one of Bean Voyage's producer partners shows corrugated metal roofing, wood paneled walls and countertops, and a neat kitchen table set with woven bowls, ceramic plates, and items of fruit and vegetables. In the background, a white stove and refrigerator, and a doorway open to the stone patio and greenery beyond.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-1-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rustic and simple kitchen of one of Bean Voyage&#8217;s producer partners.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After graduating in 2016, SungHee and Abhinav went back to Costa Rica. They didn\u2019t intend to start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beanvoyage.org\/\">Bean Voyage<\/a>, but they felt the need to answer the questions they had raised during their university research. \u201cWe visited seven different coffee farming communities. We were recording their stories and asking them questions like, \u2018What is it that you are going through right now?\u2019 and \u2018Do you feel this is because you&#8217;re a woman?\u2019 What they were telling us&#8230;I remember just thinking, that&#8217;s really unfair.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It became clear that beginning to bridge the gender gap could start with one simple thing: increased access to education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What they found was that the coffee the women produced was often lower quality than that of the men, and as a result they earned less for their crop. Effect clearly linked to cause: they didn\u2019t get paid as much, as they didn\u2019t have the knowledge to produce specialty coffee &#8211; because they didn\u2019t have access to the same level of training. It became clear that beginning to bridge the gender gap could start with one simple thing: increased access to education.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5176\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5176\" class=\"wp-image-5176 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-3.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with short, straight dark hair is photographed from behind wearing a white t-shirt that reads &quot;I love women powered coffee&quot; in orange capital letters across her back. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-3-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bean Voyage founder, Sunghee Tark donning the organization&#8217;s feminist powered T-shirt. Tark wears this T-shirt to every community visit.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Their qualitative research paid off &#8211; the breadth their passion project had covered, and the lengths to which they went to obtain their answers drew attention from local and international organizations. Within a short period of time, Bean Voyage was funded as an educational foundation, and backed by a Board of Directors ready to act in advisory capacities.<\/p>\n<p>To begin, they needed to convince their partners to offer this education to women only. \u201cOne of the first reactions from our partner organization was that they had always opened this workshop up for everyone, and women just don&#8217;t show up. So we said, let&#8217;s create one where we only invite women and see how many people show up then: everyone showed up for 90% of the workshop. Then [our partner organization] decided that this was discrimination against men!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We initially want to reduce the gender gap, but ultimately the goal is to open it up to everyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In response, SungHee and Abhinav decided to introduce a unique element to their training, which has contributed heavily to their initiative\u2019s overall success &#8211; a partnership with the Institute of Restorative Practices. Focusing on healthy conflict resolution and building interpersonal relationships between individuals and communities, they offer gender workshops to the community to help to \u2018set the scene\u2019 for the changes they want to make &#8211; without opposing societal structure front on. \u201cIt&#8217;s so difficult to handle, especially being a foreigner. We don\u2019t want to come in and directly say what needs to change. But we can now hint at it by opening these classes up to women only.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5177\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5177\" class=\"wp-image-5177 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stand smiling with their arms around one another: SungHee Tark, with short bangs and the sleeves of her white t-shirt rolled up, and Adrianna Vasquez, her long dark hair falling over one shoulder and her eyeglasses propped on her nose as she looks away from the camera.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sub-photo-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SungHee Tark (left) and Adrianna Vasquez enjoying a moment during a community visit. The Costa Rican summer months are filled with rain and visits can get quite wet and muddy.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although Bean Voyage classify themselves as a feminist organization focused on building an equitable value chain, their end goal is to be able to open these opportunities to all smallholder producers. \u201cWe initially want to reduce the gender gap, but ultimately the goal is to open it up to everyone. And at that stage &#8211; and to make sure it remains equitable in the future &#8211; men will have to attend these workshops with a female partner, or a woman from their family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lanikingston.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lani Kingston<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a food consultant, author, and the founder of F&amp;B support agency, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasonsoffood.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four Seasons of Food<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Her first book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to Make Coffee: The Science Behind the Bean,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was an international bestseller and has been translated into several languages. Lani has written extensively about food and drink for international publications, and developed F&amp;B products and brands around the world. Armed with a Masters in Food Studies, a Masters in Education, pastry chef and barista qualifications, she\u2019s spent the last decade working the breadth of the industry: she helped set up and ran the European offshoot of MAST Chocolate; led a food-waste-powered cooking school in Australia; set up a luxury coffee company in Singapore; and worked with renowned chef Dan Barber at his prestigious farm-to-table upstate New York restaurant Blue Hill at Stone Barns. You can follow her adventures in food on Instagram <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lanikingston\/?hl=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@lanikingston<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Alexa Romano is a recent graduate from Stanford University with an MA in Anthropology and a BA in Anthropology coupled with a double minor in Ethics in Society and Photography. Her undergraduate research discusses the production of \u201cheritage\u201d at both the central Andean town and UNESCO archeological site: Chav\u00edn de Huantar, Peru. Her master&#8217;s research investigates the coffee commodity chain beginning with women and youth smallholder coffee producers in Costa Rica. She explores the mystified, obscured, and ethical\/unethical relations that tether producer societies to consumer societies. She incorporates photography and storytelling into all of her research. You can find her on Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/romanoalexa\/\">@romanoalexa<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not a great time to be a coffee farmer. There\u2019s enough turbulence generated by volatile coffee prices, an increase in pestilence and disease, climate change, supply surplus, troubling economic and political turmoil and the resulting lack of workers &#8211; without even beginning to consider equality issues. 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