A group of fifteen coffee farmers from Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua visited Boot Koffie at the invitation of Barend Boot.

The purpose was to exchange information. In recent years the price of coffee on the world market has continued to fall. Bad news for the coffee farmers. That has to change, according to Barend Boot.

Barend Boot wants to give the coffee drinker an unforgettable happy experience with the aromas and flavors of the world's best coffees. The roaster believes it is important to share the stories of coffee farmers. "I exist because you use my name and coffee," said the coffee farmer.

Boot Koffie believes that you can only be genuinely happy with coffee when everyone in the chain earns a fair share.

Barend Boot wants to make a direct contribution to increasing the quality of life of coffee farmers independent of the coffee price on the world market. Based on the needs and wishes of the local coffee farmers themselves and not on what we from the Netherlands think is right.

And we succeeded. While tasting the coffees they brought along, the coffee farmers shared many ideas and possibilities in enthusiastic discussions. The guarantee of sales security is at least as important to the farmers as realizing a better price for their coffee. Through sales security it is possible to structurally increase the price.