Los Rodriguez PB | Bolivia

Agricafé is a Bolivian family business which produces coffee from its own farms and sources high quality micro lots from small producers in the regions of Los Yungas and Santa Cruz.

As pioneers within South American specialty coffee, Agricafé initially entered the coffee industry in 1986, when Pedro Rodriguez decided to pursue his passion for agriculture.

Over 36 years later, he has seen and lived the ups and downs of Bolivian coffee and is now working along with his daughter Daniela and his son Pedro Pablo. The trio runs the company with the idea of restoring and improving Bolivian coffee by launching producer training programs and planting own farms across the above mentioned regions.

Coffee production in Bolivia can be traced back as far as 1880, where large landowners produced all of the coffee until 1991. Production has always been small, leaving Bolivia as a minor player on the world stage.

In the last 10 years exports, have continuously dropped. Whereas in 2010 exports were at around 70,000 bags, in 2019 the numbers were as low as 22,000 bags. The aim of Agricafé is to do its part in reversing this trend while allowing coffee producers to have a fair price for their hard work. To do this, we have introduced two programs 'Fincas Los Rodriguez' and 'Sol de la Mañana Program'.