Description organization
This Coffee Estate is the largest Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee farm and the first coffee farm to achieve Carbon Neutrality in Costa Rica. Family owned since its founding, the farm is known for the quality of the high-altitude, shade-grown Arabica Coffee it produces. Along with its distinctive coffee, a century of history has also helped to shape the farm into a model of ecological sustainability & social responsibility. The Estate covers 600 hectares of lush, shaded coffee plantations and 200 hectares of protected rainforest. Not just a Coffee Farm, a Community.
The organization has been home to research studies for decades, starting with early sociological studies in the 1950’s. More recently, it has been the site for several ongoing environmental research projects. In 2007, the farm was among the very first to try to calculate its carbon balance and today it is the main test plot for an ongoing project between the CIRAD Institute from France and CATIE University from Costa Rica. The “Carbon-Flux project” measures greenhouse gas exchange between the farm plot and the atmosphere over long-time horizons.
The Coffee Estate is also a tourist attraction with its 60km of roads that wind through the picturesque coffee fields and where you can spot more than 130 species of dazzling birds and visit a 30-meter waterfall. The current offer includes coffee-, horseback- and bird watching tours.
Mission
Maintain its position as the largest Rainforest Certified Coffee Farm in Costa Rica and continue applying regenerative practices
on a large agricultural scale.
Location
Turrialba (Costa Rica)
Fields of study
Marketing & Communication, Environment & Sustainability, Hospitality & Tourism, Business Administration, Engineering, Agriculture.
Supervision
There are many professionals in the organization and and the your supervisor will be selected depending your necessities.
Requirements
Spanish level A2 (min)