El Durazno – Honduras
El Durazno – Honduras

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El Durazno – Honduras

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Welcome to El Durazno!

Specialty coffees from Honduras often rhymes with depth and complexity, and El Durazno is no exception. With notes of vanilla, caramel and mandarin, you'll be in for Christmas vibes.

This wonderful coffee comes from a microlot from the El Durazno farm in Honduras, which has both grown and processed this coffee in collaboration with The Intibuca Project 🇭🇳

  • Origin: Honduras
  • Processing: Washed
  • Tasting notes: Sweet and tea-like with notes of vanilla, caramel and mandarin

Omni-roasted coffee beans - brew any way you like

Title:250 g
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B Corp
Certified ✔
Agroforestry
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41% better payment
Documented ✔
Supply chain
Documented ✔

CleverCoffee is a B Corp

The coffee you buy at CleverCoffee leaves a well-documented, positive imprint on the world.

When CleverCoffee became B Corp certified in 2021, it was with a score of 88.2.

In 2025 - four years later - we have almost doubled our score to 154.6 points.

This means that CleverCoffee has the highest score among all coffee companies in the EU - and the second highest score for all companies in the Nordic region.

In our opinion, B Corp certification is the world's most stringent independent certification, guaranteeing that you buy your coffee from a responsible company.

As a customer at CleverCoffee, you contribute to ensuring that coffee farmers can live a life above the poverty line and that they can afford to develop their farms so that they have a long-term source of income.

In addition to contributing positively to the living conditions of coffee farmers, CleverCoffee's B Corp certification is your assurance that we are always transparent and have a drastically reduced climate impact.

What was our score?

With our 2025 recertification we received the following score:

  • Governance 19.5
  • Workers 25.5
  • Community 32.5
  • Environment 73.4
  • Customers 3.6

Total: 154.6

Documentation

Read more about B Corp

BCorporation.net: CleverCoffee

This coffee is grown in agroforestry

This roughly means that the coffee plants are shaded by other trees and plants. Agroforestry is the opposite of what is called “monoculture”, where you have a field that only consists of one type of plant, for example coffee plants.

In a forest farm, the coffee plants are part of a system with animals and plants that live naturally in the area.

There are many different types of agroforestry. There can be different amounts of shade cover, different degrees of diversity in plants and animals, and one can, for example, talk about having several different layers of shade cover, with trees that have their crowns at different heights and thus several layers.

Why agroforestry?

Since 1990, an estimated 420 million hectares of forest have been cleared and converted to agriculture, including coffee plantations. Although the rate of deforestation has slowed in recent decades, significant deforestation continues. About 10 million hectares of forest are cleared each year - an area the size of Iceland.

Therefore, we need to do something.

Forestry is a really good solution for both having food production and at the same time taking care of our ecosystems and climate.

Here are just some of the benefits of agroforestry:

  • Increases biodiversity
  • Absorbs much more CO2 from the atmosphere
  • Minimizes the need for fertilizer
  • Make coffee plants more resilient
  • Extends the life of the coffee plant
  • Gives the coffee a higher quality and better taste, as the coffee cherries take longer to ripen in the shade
  • Better soil conditions
  • Creates a microclimate that makes plants more resistant to climate change

Read more:

CleverCoffee: Agroforestry and shade-grown coffee

We paid the coffee farmer 41% more for this coffee

...in comparison, Fairtrade certified coffee typically has a premium of less than 10% for the farmer. And the certification is not free either.

Research shows time and again that certifications such as Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance have no demonstrable positive effect on the living conditions of coffee farmers. (Cordes and Sagan, 2021)

Western coffee companies are making huge profits while coffee farmers around the world live in poverty. This is wrong, and we need to change that.

That's why we pay more for the coffee beans we import.

44% of coffee farmers worldwide still live in poverty. At least 5.5 million coffee farmers live below the international poverty line of $3.20 a day. Studies show that one-third of coffee farmers earn less than $100 annually from coffee production (Enveritas, 2018; Sachs et al., 2019).

When we pay farmers more, we give them the opportunity to invest in themselves and their businesses. This leads to further growth and the opportunity to invest in more sustainable farming practices such as reducing water use and reforestation projects.

The calculation:

We paid the farmer: $10.58/kg

The market price at the time of the contract was: $7.49/kg

This means we have paid the farmer 41% more than the market price.

Documentation

See the complete overview of the payments we have made for our coffee beans in our annual transparency report: CleverCoffee: Transparency Report

Sources

"Responsible Coffee Sourcing: Towards a Living Income for Producers" (Cordes and Sagan, 2021)

"Why do coffee farmers stay poor? : Breaking vicious circles with direct payments from profit sharing" (Ruben, 2023)

"Six Transformations to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)" (Sachs et al., 2019)

A short and transparent supply chain

We always work with as short and transparent a supply chain as possible. 98% of our coffee is purchased directly from the coffee farm, without using a middleman.

This coffee is an exception, as we have used a transparent importer to bring the coffee home.

The vast majority of our roasted coffee is also purchased directly from us - with the exception of a few retailers, such as coffee shops and specialty stores. You cannot buy our coffee in any large chains or on online marketplaces.

This means that there are fewer parties who have to "have a piece of the pie" and we ensure better payment for the coffee farms, which have been underpaid and living in poverty for decades.

The supply chain for this coffee looks like this:

  • The coffee is grown in Honduras in the Masaguara, Intibucá area.
  • The coffee berries have been processed locally by Francisco Velasquez in collaboration with the Intibuca project.
  • The green coffee beans are imported to Europe by Nordic Approach and briefly stored in a warehouse in Zeebrugge, Belgium.
  • The green beans have then been transported to CleverCoffee.
  • The coffee is roasted and packaged at CleverCoffee in our own roastery outside Aarhus.

A special taste and story from Honduras – let's welcome El Durazno!

From a microlot grown by Francisco Velasquez from the El Durazno farm in Honduras comes our new coffee. Honduran specialty coffees are expected to be deep and complex, and that also describes El Durazno without a doubt!

This coffee here comes from a microlot. That just means that the coffee can be traced back to a single farm or small area. This of course means that there is only a small amount of this particular coffee.

Francisco Velasquez and the El Durazno farm are part of the Intibuca project, which consists of 60 coffee farmers from the Pozo Negro area of ​​Honduras. Here, coffee farmers have formed a group where they share knowledge and ideas with each other. They meet regularly and work together to improve coffee production and increase the quality of the individual farms. The taste that El Durazno brings to the coffee table reflects the result of this collaboration and the ambitions of the 60 coffee farmers.

Francisco Velasquez bought his farm in 2009 after 3 years of hard work and savings. Since then, he has invested in improvements to the farm so that he can continue to grow high-quality coffee without compromising the farm's environmental impact.

Notably, the farmers in the Intibuca project are reinvesting in the infrastructure – both wet mills, drying facilities and the overall production of the coffee. This creates better traceability and makes it possible to separate the individual microlots from each other, which is very unusual among coffee farms in Honduras.

We found this coffee sweet and tea-like with notes of vanilla, caramel and mandarin – with El Durazno you get a deep and complex cup.

Typical delivery: 1-2 business days

Typical delivery: 1-2 business days

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