WLRD brings women coffee producers together to share knowledge, strengthen their farms, and showcase their coffee to buyers and partners who recognize the people and work behind every harvest.
Explore specialty coffee microlots produced by WLRD’s women coffee farmers, alongside handmade products and emerging initiatives created by members in Cauca, Colombia.
Each available lot includes confirmed details about its producer, farm, origin, processing, and quality.
WLRD is developing this initiative with member and beekeeper Lorena to explore the connection between coffee farming, pollinators, biodiversity, and future honey products in Cauca.
Each pair reflects the skill and creativity of a WLRD member in Cauca, Colombia.
WLRD is a nonprofit, member-governed association led by rural women in Cauca, Colombia. Together, they share knowledge, develop rural products, and connect with new markets.
Specialty coffee is central to our work, alongside handmade products, education, environmental stewardship, and other initiatives defined by our members.
Member-led governance and collective decision-making
Specialty coffee, rural products, and shared learning
Transparent partnerships and market connections
In a landscape shaped by the Sotará volcano, women coffee producers and their families cultivate specialty coffee through careful farming, local knowledge, and close attention to every harvest.
WLRD connects these producers with buyers and partners who value quality, traceability, and the people behind each microlot, while promoting responsible care for the land.
Women producers, mountain farms, and traceable origins
Care for water, biodiversity, and rural landscapes
We work so that women, young people and rural families in Cauca have access to training, alliances and projects that transform their reality.
Rural communities in Cauca face limited development opportunities, gender gaps in access to resources, and a lack of technical support to drive sustainable productive projects.
We generate real impact: empowered women, young people with opportunities, families with a better quality of life and communities that thrive sustainably.
WLRD’s work is guided by its bylaws and by the priorities defined by its members. These eight areas provide a clear framework for developing responsible, measurable initiatives.
Strengthening participation, collective decision-making, transparency, and organizational capacity.
Learning spaces that connect rural experience with technical, entrepreneurial, and organizational skills.
Strengthening production practices, product quality, documentation, and continuous improvement.
Supporting traceability, quality evaluation, origin stories, and market readiness for coffees produced by members.
Developing opportunities around agricultural, agro-industrial, artisanal, and other rural products.
Promoting care for water, soil, biodiversity, and the long-term sustainability of rural territories.
Initiatives that strengthen participation, learning, culture, and well-being among rural women, youth, and families.
Building technical, institutional, commercial, and international relationships that expand knowledge and access to opportunity.
WLRD is strengthening its legal, organizational, productive, and commercial foundations. Each milestone is documented, allowing members, buyers, and partners to follow our progress with confidence.
Legal registration in Colombia
Member-led governance
Microlots in development
Technical and market partnerships
