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Konrad Brits

Konrad Brits

CEO and Founder of Falcon Coffees, a specialty green coffee trading company building collaborative supply chains between rural farmers and roasters worldwide.

Aug 21, 2026

19:37
Yeah
19:37
... a family on their own.
19:38
And we train those farmers in good agronomic practices, so really wanting to increase yield and quality, and then in the science of post-harvest processing.
19:48
How do you maximize your revenue by really understanding the chemistry of whether you're making natural or washed coffees? And then we are a buyer of those coffees and supply those coffees through to our specialty sales offices around the world.
20:05
So that's very important is we're the, we're the economic partner and offtaker, and we track what we pay farmers or the premium we're paying them over the commercial market price.
20:14
With a partial UK government grant, uh, we hired Dr. Mandy Caudill, the agroecologist, to lead on a three-and-a-half-year project to build an emissions model for small-scale coffee farmers.
20:26
So how do we measure carbon emissions? You know, can we build a model? And that was a really interesting journey for us because...
20:50
Yeah

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