People In Coffee / Bean To Cup Journey

Farmers

The story starts with the approximately 400,000 farmers around the world who supply coffee to Starbucks and bring a complex agricultural product to life.

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

Digital Traceability Tool connects baristas in stores all the way back to the farmers, like Virginie from Rwanda

This Tribute to Women: 20 years in Peru

Three women smiling outside on a farm, holding a plastic tub of eggs

One egg at a time: Kattya, a Costa Rican coffee farmer, developed an income-diversification project with a grant from The Starbucks Foundation

The importance of a cow: How The Starbucks Foundation teams up with nonprofits to help Kezia and women in coffee around the world

Woman smiling in checked shirt and hat, surrounded by coffee trees

Walquiria took over her father’s farm in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and is now a community leader

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Bean-to-Cup Journey

Learn about coffee’s bean-to-cup journey from the people involved at every step.

What We Stand For

Meet the people who bring our mission and values to life.

Coffee Around the World

Understand the people and cultures in the countries where we buy coffee.