At Bean & Bean, we are well aware that there are multiple fronts where our coffee world is under siege. As a small company, we want to make the biggest impact with the limited resources that we have. That’s why we focused our efforts on an issue that is of the utmost importance to us: the gender disparity in coffee .

Coffee attracts people from all walks of life in its consumption and production. However, there are some barriers that women face in terms of coffee production. Most notably:

• Women produce 35% lower coffee wield than male farmers.
• Women earn 40% lower revenue from coffee sales than their male counterparts.
• 54% smallholder women producers have received any training or extension services.

We identified four main, interconnected reasons for these outcomes: lack of transparency, lack of agency, lack of fair trading deals and prices, and lack of access to training and resources.