Author: Bjørge Bondevik

It is August and almost two years after Konfiansa saw the light of day, we have reached a major milestone: We are producing coffee. Right now we are in the high season of coffee production in East Timor. The farmers in CCALMA, Konfiansa's new cooperative, have in recent weeks built drying beds and used the cooperative's newly purchased depulping machine (a machine that removes…