A new book authored by IWCA Argentina Chapter in-formation member, Analía Álvarez, is helping to raise funds to complete the chapter formation protocol. Yo, Cafeto tells the story of the evolution of coffee through nine fictional stories based on real events, including a chapter about women in coffee.

Chapters in the IWCA Global Network are self-driven organizations, focused on their unique, local needs, and united globally by the shared IWCA mission to empower women across the coffee industry. Currently, the IWCA chapter network represents 27 countries and six more chapters in-formation, including Argentina.

A portion of each sale of Yo, Cafeto will support the development of the Argentinian chapter and enhance the visibility of women in the international coffee community.

For more information about the IWCA Chapter Formation Protocol click here.

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Yo, Cafeto tells the story of the evolution of coffee from its origins in Africa to the present day, through nine fictional stories based on real events. It includes a first-person manifesto in the voice of a coffee tree in which Analía Álvarez describes the importance of its fruit at different times in human history.

Their stories are born from a deep investigation into how the coffee fruit was consumed from the first Oromo tribes, in Abyssinia, thousands of years ago, until today, when sophisticated specialty coffees delight their consumers all over the world.

Analía Álvarez uses the fictional story to describe transcendent moments of Humanity, due to its historical value or its tragic nature, in which coffee was the protagonist.

About The Author

Analía Álvarez is a journalist, university professor, and the first Argentine to receive a Q rating from the Coffee Quality Institute. She has carried out Courses and Training in Coffee Cultivation, Pests and Diseases, Defects in green beans, Post-harvest processes, as well as Tastings and Tuesday Courses in countries of America and Africa.

In 2010 she created, together with her husband, the Center for Coffee Studies aimed at training baristas, tasters, and roasters, and in 2011 she opened the Coffee Town cafeteria, in the San Telmo neighborhood. Since then she has been an Instructor in seminars and courses on tasting, barista, and brewing in professional training institutes, gastronomy, and chocolate schools throughout the country. She has been a permanent speaker on coffee in private companies and Professional Associations and was appointed by the Argentine Coffee Chamber as its representative in the National Campaigns “I love my coffee”. Her passion for coffee has taken her to different coffee-growing countries, where she met their people and their customs, their ancestral cultures, and their current problems. This reality of coffee growers of small farms and cooperatives has transformed her into a fervent defender of sustainable, Specialty coffees, produced by women and bought at a Fair Price. As a journalist, she won the Martín Fierro award for his short documentary La Página Final and for her investigative radio program Escalera Servida. Since 2008 she has been a teacher in Social Communication at UNLAM.