COFFEE. CLIMATE. COMMUNITY.

Coffee production is taking off in Nepal. Farmers are turning to it in the Himalayan foothills both as a way to improve livelihoods, but also as a way to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

The Glacier Trust, through it’s NGO partners is helping to enable this. Organic, multi-crop, layer farming is on the rise and hill communities are organising into cooperatives to maximise the benefit.

Along with our partner NGOs, our aim is to revolutionise the way Nepalese coffee is bought and sold [we are even buying and selling small amounts ourselves]. Nepal, being a relatively new player in the global coffee market, has an opportunity to do things differently to other coffee growing nations.

We want as much of the income generated from coffee to stay in Nepal, this means not only growing it and processing it in country, it means roasting it there too.

Our long term goal is to enable Nepal to roast as much of its own coffee as it can, so that it is exported not as a raw material that other, wealthier, countries can make huge profits from, but as a finished product that Nepal profits from.

Watch the film

Our 2019 film, Coffee. Climate. Community. tells the story of coffee farming in Solukhumbu. If you would like to host a screening of this film, or to work with us to achieve our goals on Nepalese coffee, please get in touch.

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED: MELEAH MOORE & MORGAN PHILLIPS \ CINEMATOGRAPHY AND EDITING: MELEAH MOORE \ NARRATION: SIAN BROOKE \ SECOND CAMERA: ROLI WOOD \ ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE: MATTER STUDIO; MORGAN PHILLIPS; NARAYAN DHAKHAL \ FEATURING: NARAYAN DHAKHAL; ANISHA KHAREL; BHOLA K. SHRESTHA; HARI KUMAR \ MUSIC: THE LOST BROTHERS & C. BURROWS

In early 2018, volunteer filmmaker, Meleah Moore, travelled to Deusa, Solukhumbu with our partner NGO, EcoHimal Nepal, to capture the footage and interviews that make up our beautiful new documentary.

The film tells the story of a two day training workshop on Deusa’s lower slopes, where 34 local farmers had gathered to learn how coffee farming can help them to adapt to climate change and improve their livelihood. It also explores how the economics of coffee production can be changed to bring more benefit to those who farm and grow it in Nepal.

The Glacier Trust enables climate change adaptation in Nepal. Please support our work by making a donation today. 100% of the money you donate will be spent on our project work in Nepal.