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Ethiopia

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Marianne McCune
The house of a coffee grower in Ethipia’s Sidamo coffee growing region.
Marianne McCune
Inside a coffee grower’s house.
Marianne McCune
Sunset in the Sidamo coffee growing region.
Marianne McCune
Neighbors of the Bokaso Coffee Cooperative come to celebrate the coop’s first place finish in the coffee competition.
Marianne McCune
At each cooperative the international judges visit, they’re served coffee that’s been roasted, ground, and brewed as part of a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony.
Marianne McCune
Women at the Bokaso Coffee Cooperative bring out bowls of false banana mush to serve to the visiting coffee experts.
Marianne McCune
Village elders come to the Bokaso Coffee Cooperative to celebrate a first place win in washed coffee. They dance and sing to celebrate.
Marianne McCune
E-Café founder Willem Boot videotapes the crowd that’s gathered at the Bokaso Cooperative to hear the good news.
Marianne McCune
Coffee beans being roasted over a fire.
Jim Munson
A sprig of khat, a mind-altering herb that’s increasingly popular in Ethiopia and a few neighboring countries in which it’s legal. During the coffee crisis, some farmers in Ethiopia grew Khat instead of coffee because they could get a better price.
Marianne McCune
Trucks filled with coffee beans waiting to be cupped, or tested, at Ethiopia’s central liquoring lab in Addis Ababa.
Marianne McCune
Coffee beans laid out for exporters to see at the state auction in Addis Ababa.
Marianne McCune
Preparing for Ethiopia’s first International Coffee Competition.
Marianne McCune
Oren Bloostein and David Dallis sniffing competing coffees. The judges smell the grounds, smell the coffee, and taste a brewed cup.
Marianne McCune
Coffee sorting and grinding machines at the central coffee liquoring lab in Addis Ababa.
Marianne McCune
Coffee farmer Haile Cheechoo is still suspicious of the local cooperative because during socialist times, membership was obligatory and the farmers didn’t benefit.
Marianne McCune
Beds for drying coffee beans. Cooperatives use part of their profits to buy and maintain processing equipment.
Jim Munson
Children of coffee farmers.
Marianne McCune
Children who’ve gathered to see the ‘Faranji’ (foreigners) who’ve come to their village to tell them their coffee won a competition.
Marianne McCune
--- Colleen Crosby of Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting greets a coffee farmer who has just expressed how glad he is to see the people who buy and drink his coffee.
Marianne McCune
Genevieve Felix of Oren’s Daily Roast speaks with an agronomist who has no microscope to research the most pest-resistant coffee plants.
Marianne McCune
The only female board member of the Kello Cooperative prepares coffee for the judges of the competition.
Marianne McCune
A storage space for coffee beans built and paid for by the Kello Cooperative.
Marianne McCune
Yosef Worku of the Yergachefe Coffee Union translates the international judges’ admiration for the cooperative’s coffee.
Marianne McCune
Evening sunlight in the mountainous Sidamo coffee growing region of Ethiopia.

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