About

ANEI are an organisation of Native agroecological producers and farmers from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serrania del Perija. Founded in 1995 by Aurora Izquierdo, the first Arhuaca native woman from the community of Yewrwa who decided to study in Bogota, Colombia's capital. The objective was to organise the economy of the native and farmer communities. She's seen as a leader who used coffee as a tool to promote the cultural presence of the communities. ANEI Colombia Exporter SE Origin works to implement eco-sustainable programs and projects that strengthen organisational processes which reclaim social, economic and cultural rights. This also promotes the food security of the communities, contributing to the world with healthy organic coffee of high-quality that helps take care of nature and the human being. The production and commercialisation of ANEI's Organic Coffee is within a context of harmony and respect for mother earth. Cherry is picked ripe and wet processed before being brought to collection centres. Once dry, the coffee goes through rigorous cupping and grading before being bagged and exported.