
300 Filipino Youth Form 4H Club with USDA And Local Support
In Tagbina, a town located in the Philippines’s Surigao del Sur, 300 young coffee farmers and students organized themselves as …

Q&A with Program Leader in the Philippines on Transforming Cooperatives into Agri-Businesses
Alfred Allaga is country director of the Cooperative Development Program (CDP) in the Philippines, funded by USAID and led by …

41 Philippine Co-Ops Team Up with USAID’s Cooperative Development Program
This post is authored by Felipe Cook, a Leland Fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center working with ACDI/VOCA. On September …

How a Women’s Cooperative is Leading the Way for Specialty Coffee in the Philippines
The foothills of Mount Apo are home to the Philippines’s growing specialty coffee industry. Specialty coffee is at the heart …

PhilCAFE Coffee Mentors Help Filipino Farmers Improve Production
In the Philippines, “coffee mentors” are lending their expertise to other coffee growers in a bid to improve farming practices. …

USDA-Supported Filipino Coffee Farmers Break Record Prices in Auction
Filipino coffee farmers who won at this year’s Philippine Coffee Quality Competition (PCQC) earned record prices during the online auction, …

Philippine Cooperatives Can Play a Key Role in Development
This week, ACDI/VOCA launched the USAID-funded Cooperative Development Program in the Philippines. During the launch event, more than 125 people, …

PhilCAFE’s 2021 Successes, Despite COVID-19 Challenges in the Philippines
The year of 2021, much like the previous, was all about adapting. In the Philippines, the five-year Philippine Coffee Advancement …

Internet of Things Technology Helps Filipino Coffee Farmers Boost Productivity
About 400 coffee farmers will soon be using internet-based technology to monitor and manage their farms. They have the Philippine …

Cooperative Development Program
The activity advances cooperative development knowledge in different contexts, while aligning with CDP’s IRs and the missions’ Country Development Cooperation …

Year-In-Review: Growth in the Philippine Coffee Sector
Since the program began in 2018, Philippine Coffee Advancement and Farm Enterprise (PhilCAFE) has been striving to help increase the …