Rosy Dariela Mancía
CAFESMO — Honduras
Rosy Dariela Mancía is a dedicated coffee producer from Honduras. Together with her husband, Roy Hernández, she grows high-quality specialty coffees. With passion and care, they focus on producing coffees with character and clear quality.
Dariela also leads the “Women’s Power” group within the CAFESMO cooperative. She actively works to increase the visibility and empowerment of women in Honduran coffee production.
CAFESMO
CAFESMO is a cooperative that was initiated in 2016. Today, it has over 280 members who run relatively small farms that range roughly from 2 to 12 hectares in size. All fincas in the cooperative are fair trade and organic certified.
The farms are located around the town of Mercedes in the south of Honduras, surrounded by the highest peaks of the country and straddling the border to El Salvador. The mountains create highly beneficial micro-climates, as well as a diverse fauna and flora with plentiful natural shade.
CAFESMO’s members are a diverse group: there are young people as well as less young members, women and men, and people from all sorts of professional backgrounds. What unites them is a passion for high quality coffees that they can realize together.
Both Dariela and Roy come from coffee-growing families. When they got married, each inherited a small piece of land. Together, they initially owned just 1.7 hectares — not enough to fully support their family. To make ends meet, they worked regular jobs while tending their fields and producing microlots in the evenings and on weekends.
In 2016, they joined the CAFESMO cooperative and began focusing on specialty coffee. At first, they mainly produced washed coffees. As demand grew for natural and anaerobic processing, they embraced the challenge and refined their methods.
Over time, they invested in technical training, improved their processing techniques, and expanded their farm. After the birth of their second child, Dariela made an important decision: she left her formal job to dedicate herself fully to coffee production.
Today, Dariela and Roy are committed to sustainable and ecological farming practices. They use organic fertilizer made from coffee pulp, plant shade trees, and continue working to improve the quality of their coffees year after year.