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Cups of Coffee: How Your Daily Intake Can Fuel Solidarity

On the occasion of World Coffee Day, join us for a coffee break with Dinu Abdella, Advisor in Public Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at KIT Royal Tropical Institute.

In this episode, Dinu shares the origins of the Coffee Stories — and how learning more about the lives of coffee farmers can deepen our sense of connection and solidarity with them.

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  • KIT Coffee Stories: Making a living from coffee – talking with farmers in Colombia

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    • News

    Take a coffee break with Stefan Petrutiu, advisor and coffee connoisseur at KIT, as he is joined by farmers he met in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. In this video, we talk to the coffee farmers and explore the context behind the numbers in our studies on household and living incomes. What do […]

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  • Are coffee farmers in Ethiopia earning a living income?

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    • Coffee Stories

    Join us for a coffee break with Stefan Petrutiu, agribusiness advisor at KIT Institute. Stefan, a true coffee connoisseur, knows what it takes to brew an exceptional cup. It all begins with the coffee farmers. In this episode, we explore how much coffee farmers need to afford a decent standard of living. Have a coffee […]

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  • Brewing Equality: Empowering Agronomists to improve Gender Equality

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    • Coffee Stories

    Join us for a coffee break with Ana Victoria Portocarrero, senior gender advisor at KIT Royal Tropical Institute. Ana Victoria will give us an insight into a programme set up by  Nespresso and KIT that tackles gender inequality in coffee production. This program has been implemented in numerous countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. […]

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  • Brewing the Future: How Young Colombian Farmers Are Transforming Coffee Production

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    • Coffee Stories

    Take a coffee break with KIT Institute and explore the lives of young coffee farmers and their families in Colombia. This video takes a closer look at the future generation of coffee farmers – and their plans and ambitions for the future. What motivates these young farmers to stay in the coffee sector? By telling […]

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  • Choosing a sustainable coffee for the KIT offices

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    • Coffee Stories

    At KIT we recently had to change our coffee machines. For many people, a morning coffee is the only way to start the day. In 2019 at the KIT offices, around 3,000 kilos of coffee beans were ground every year to meet the coffee needs of all 1,500 people working here: KIT employees, our SDG […]

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  • Making a living from coffee – talking with farmers in Colombia

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    • Coffee Stories

    Take a coffee break with Stefan Petrutiu, advisor and coffee connoisseur at KIT, as he is joined by farmers he met in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. In this video, we talk to the coffee farmers and explore the context behind the numbers in our studies on household and living incomes. What do […]

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  • 5 May Freedom lecture and soup

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    • News

    On 5 May, Liberation Day, KIT hosts a special programme combining a Freedom Meal with a historical lecture about KIT in wartime. Historian Niek Lohmann will explore the institute’s role during the Second World War. Shortly after the German invasion in 1940, large parts of the building were occupied by the Ordnungspolizei. At the same […]

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  • Who Will End TB? — A symposium on science, stigma, and community leadership

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    • Event
    • News

    Last Friday, we had the privilege of bringing people together at KIT Institute for a conversation on a topic that felt both urgent and deeply human. “Who Will End TB?” was a community-led symposium on TB, stigma, and society, organised by artist and TB advocate Paulina Siniatkina and Shaun Palmer from IAVI — just days […]

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  • National Community Health Strategy Somalia

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    • Project

    UNICEF Somalia wanted an institutional organisation to revise an existing draft national strategy revision (2023-2027) document and make it more representative of the government’s vision for community health. KIT was selected to conduct the revision due to its track record working on similar strategy development projects and having an existing pool of experts. Project Approach […]

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