Ten days on the coffee farms of Minas Gerais. Your boots will get muddy. Coffee will never taste the same again.
The International Women's Coffee Alliance operates in 37 countries across 6 continents. Its work is commercial, concrete and measurable: it builds direct supply chains between women producers and buyers, one agreement at a time.
IWCA Italia is Chapter n. 30. Since 2025, it brings European buyers directly to women-led coffee farms in Brazil — boots on the red earth.
This trip exists to close that gap in a commercial and measurable way: European buyers who meet producers directly, build lasting relationships, and return home with a sourcing strategy that holds over time.
Waking up on a fazenda in Minas. Picking ripe cherries alongside the producers. Understanding with your hands what you used to only understand with words.
Looking in the eye of the person who grows the coffee you sell. A name, a story, a table to sit around together. The cooperatives we visit are built by people too: seeing them from the inside changes the way you do sourcing, permanently.
Coming home changed. Everyone who joined the 2025 trip changed the way they source, talk about coffee, and explain prices to their customers. It will happen to you too.
Built on gold in the eighteenth century, crossed for centuries by mule trains carrying coffee along the Estrada Real. Tiradentes is the Minas that slows down: colonial stone streets, Brazilian baroque, dinners that stretch late into the night. After five days on the farms, it's exactly what you need.
