Food 4 Farmers 2025 Holiday Campaign to End Hunger in the Coffeelands

About Food 4 Farmers:
An estimated 820 million people around the world don’t have enough to eat. Millions of rural small-scale farmers who depend on commodity crops like coffee, which does not deliver enough income to support their families, struggle to put food on their tables every year. Nutritious food is scarce, while an abundance of cheap, nutrient-deficient, calorie-rich food has left coffee-farming families malnourished.

Food 4 Farmers was founded in 2011 to combat the “thin months” of food insecurity in the coffeelands. Volatile market prices for coffee, the rising costs of farming sustainably, and the impacts of climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic have all made it extremely difficult for small-scale coffee farmers to support their families on coffee income alone. As a result, coffee-farming families face 5-8 months of seasonal hunger year after year, when their income from coffee runs out and food prices increase, due to high demand and low access, months before their annual harvest.

At Food 4 Farmers, we believe that every family should have access to nutritious food every day. That’s why we partner with coffee farmers, their families, and coffee cooperatives to build thriving local food hubs, diversify family income, and promote sustainable farming practices that strengthen biodiversity and ecosystem resiliency throughout Latin America.

We help develop local community-led strategies that address the root causes of food insecurity for coffee-farming families, providing the tools, knowledge, and resources needed to ensure that coffee farmers can feed their families all year long. We currently partner with 7 coffee cooperatives in Latin America to support more than 2,500 families.

https://www.food4farmers.org