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    Rosy Dariela Mancía

    Rosy Dariela Mancía is a smallholder coffee producer from Honduras who cultivates high-quality specialty coffees together with her husband, Roy Hernández. With great passion and tireless commitment, she strives to create really good coffees with lots of character. Dariela leads the Women's Power group within the CAFESMO producer cooperative and is eeply committed to giving women in Honduran coffee production greater visibility.

    The team of CAFESMO
    About
    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.

    Dariela and Roy both come from coffee-growing families and each inherited a small piece of land when they married. Together they initially had only 1.7 hectares, far too little to fully support their family — so they worked regular jobs while spending evenings and weekends caring for their coffee plants and processing small microlots.

    In 2016, they joined the CAFESMO cooperative and began specializing in specialty coffee, at first focusing mainly on washed coffees and then embracing natural and anaerobic processes to meet consumer demand. Over time, the couple broadened their expertise: they invested in technical training, improved their processing methods, and expanded their growing area. A turning point for Dariela came when she had her second child. She left her formal job to devote herself fully to her passion for coffee and the crafting of high-quality microlots.

    Today, Dariela and Roy are committed to sustainable, ecological farming practices: they use organic fertilizer made from their own coffee pulp, plant shade trees, and continually work to further elevate the quality of their coffees.