Peru Bellavista

Bellavista is a district with a huge altitude range, but most of the coffee is produced below 1600masl. The coffee in this lot comes from Bellavista, a neighbouring district to Huabal. This lot is a blend of coffees from individual producers in the region, all of whom own around 1 to 2 hectares of coffee. The varieties in this blend are Marshel, Geisha, and Catuai. After picking, producers place cherries in a tank full of water to remove any floaters, then rest the cherries overnight in plastic bags to homogenise temperature and allow the coffee to rest before placing it on raised beds for 30–40 days. Once dry, producers bring their dry parchment to the Falcon Coffees warehouse in Jaén, where the coffee is cupped and graded, and producers are paid on the same day based on the quality they bring. Falcon Coffees Peru (FCP) was set up in 2019 to work directly with farmers in the northern producing region. FCP was one of the first exporters in the region to pay quality-differentiated prices at the farm gate level. In 2022 they added exports via producer cooperatives to give buyers more reliable access to third-party certified coffees.

FCP now operate two northern warehouses—Jaén and Moyobamba—with a 20+ person team sourcing and exporting coffee from 500+ farmers and eight cooperatives. Their sustainability team runs farmer training and productivity work alongside sourcing. On speciality sourcing, they identify interested farmers, run on-farm baseline surveys (captured digitally via a Copera-built app), provide training workshops, and give ongoing agronomy support. They commit to buy from programme farmers and pay premiums over the local price according to the quality delivered. FCP also run multi-year projects: Falcon Speciality Plus (with responsAbility) to lift cup quality and premiums—showing a +1.32 average score gain, a peak of 88, and 107 producers enrolled to date—and a Soil Health Initiative targeting 600 farmers to improve soils, reduce chemical use, achieve GCP-equivalent