With the people who keep coffee growing.

Based in Brazil's Mogiana region, FAF Coffees (Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza) grows and exports coffee from its own farm and with partner growers. They have worked with organic and shade-grown coffee since the early 2000s, and today they are moving toward regenerative farming.

They plant a mix of trees and plants alongside the coffee, and build healthy soil with pruned branches and leaves and microbes from the forest. With no chemical fertilizers or pesticides, the soil and the life around it grow richer every year. Shade and rich soil protect the coffee from heat and drought. Through their Future Farmers program, they share this way of farming with growers nearby.

A project led by Bank Indonesia, together with the Embassy of Indonesia in Tokyo and Indonesia's Ministry of Trade. It selects producers from across Indonesia and connects their coffee directly with roasters and cafes in Japan, coffee that once could only reach Japan through trading companies.

From island to island, community to community and method to method, Indonesian coffee is wonderfully diverse. This project shares that diversity, together with small producers.

A Tokyo-based importer bringing India's finest specialty coffee to Japan. They combine Japanese kaizen (continuous improvement) with Indian jugaad (finding a way through ingenuity), working with producers to improve quality control, processing and equipment.

They also explore new processing methods, such as koji and anaerobic fermentation. Lab CMO, served at 2050 coffee, is a coffee from Chikmagalur, India, that we found through them.

A company founded to bring Madagascar's specialty coffee back to the world. They have built 11 processing centres across the country, buy cherries directly from farmers, and can trace every lot back to the farmer and the plot. Compared with selling through middlemen, farmers' incomes are expected to rise by 20 to 40%.

They also grow seedlings and offer technical support to raise yields, working to make coffee an industry with a future in a country that has lost much of its forest.