# Presentation: 442322

## The GeoCafe

**The GeoCafe**
- New On-line Information and Knowledge Tools and GIS Services to Support Coffee Marketing and Certification

** ****Scope**
- Facilitate access to information over the Internet on the production, processing, and marketing of coffee.
- Assist coffee producers establish direct contact with buyers and obtain premium prices.
- Promote the establishment of mechanisms that facilitate coffee monitoring and trace-back.
- Assist in the delineation of geographic areas to support appellation.
- Provide training to partner agencies on the use of new technologies for the generation and management of spatial information.** **

** ****The Public**

** ****Type of Questions the GeoCafe can Help Answer**

**Step 1: **User opens a browser, locates a GeoCafe application, and activates the coffee growing regions of the country (or appellation areas if they exist).

**Step 2**: User zooms into coffee region of interest anddisplays the coffee farms layer. He is able to view the georeferenced center points of each farm in the area.

**Step 3**: The user can check the databasefor each single farm

**Step 4**: The user queries the farm records of the region (i.e., by altitude, certification, processing, production). Resulting map highlights those farms that meet the query criteria and lists them in a table.

**Step 5**: Start Playing! Aerial photo of the Central Coffee Valley of Costa Rica draped with brown polygons showing coffee growing areas. A click on a farm displays its picture.

**Inside the GeoCafe**

**Digital Elevation Models**

**Spatial ****Data**

**Areas with Coffee**

**Appellation regions**

**Forest Cover**

**Road Network**

**Hydrography**

**And also:**
**Protected Areas**
**Drainage basins**
**Orthophotos**
**Topography**
**Land use/cover**
**Climate**
**Slope and aspect**
**Coffee pests**
**Forest cover**
**Populated places**
**Soils**
**Administrative**

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**Coffee ****Data**

**Farms**

**Cooperatives**

**Mills**

**Collection Points**

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**GIS Analysis for:**
- Producing a map of harvest periods.
- Estimating future production - both regionally and nationally.
- Mapping the area of influence of cooperatives and mills.
- Estimating transport time from farm to mill.
- Developing a map of regional production costs.
- Assessing the value of environmental services provided by coffee areas.
- Estimating basin pollution associated with coffee production.
- Identifying suitable and non-suitable areas for coffee production.
- Supporting the delineation of “appellation” areas.
- Predicting the spread of coffee pests and evaluating their economic impacts.

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**Better****Coffee****Information**

** ****More Information**

- Roasters
- Traders
- Importers
- Certifiers
- Government officials and decision-makers
- Scientists
- Exporters
- Producers
- The general public

- Which farms and cooperatives produce a particular type of coffee? How can I obtain it? What certification criteria have been met?
- Where are certified farms and cooperatives located?
- Which farms are located at a certain altitude and have appropriate climate and soil conditions necessary to produce good coffee?
- Which cooperatives produce a certain volume of organic coffee?
- Which farms produce a certain batch of coffee?
- Are national parks and protected forests intact near coffee areas?
- What are the cup characteristics at this geographical region?
-     . . . . . *And many more.*

- Eric van Praag _[vanpraag@usgs.gov](mailto:vanpraag@usgs.gov)_
- Larry L. Tieszen _[tieszen@usgs.gov](mailto:tieszen@usgs.gov)_
- Jeffrey Jones, _[jjones@catie.ac.cr](mailto:jjones@catie.ac.cr)_
- Luis Zamora _[lzamora@icafe.go.cr](mailto:lzamora@icafe.go.cr)_
- Roger Sandoval rogers@anacafe.org
- Hector Jimenez hjimenez@idiaf.org.do
**And visit:**
- www.dominicancoffee.com
- www.icafe.go.cr
- www.perucoffee.com

**Funding Agency**: USAID
**Executing Agency**: USGS EROS Data Center
**Main Partner Agencies**: CODOCAFE, IDIAF, CATIE, ICAFE, ANACAFE, and specialty coffee agencies.
**Countries Involved**: Guatemala, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic.
**Products**: Specialty coffee websites, on-line map servers, coffee maps, geospatial data, various GIS products.
**Period of Execution**: Oct. 03 through Sept. 05