Ye Ping is working to inspire her ‘Sisters in Coffee’

Meet Ye Ping, a farmer at the Tianyu Coffee Cooperative, and see how she’s working with Starbucks agronomists at the Yunnan, China, Farmer Support Center to inspire her “Sisters in Coffee.”

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