News Timor Oriental Ermera: A taste of things to come for subsistence coffee farmers in Timor-Leste
Published on: Tuesday 22 October 2013
News source: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/a-taste-of-things-to-come-for-subsistence-coffee-farmers-in-timor-leste-1.1569632
Armindo de Deus has worked all his life as a coffee farmer in the Ermera district of Timor-Leste. He is a wiry, weather-beaten man with darting, milky eyes. When asked what his family's other sources ...
News Timor Oriental Ermera: Toiling for beans in Timor-Leste
Published on: Thursday 02 July 2015
News source: https://www.ucanews.com/news/toiling-for-beans-in-timor-leste-the-struggles-of-coffee-farmers/73865
Domingas da Costa has spent her entire life working as a coffee farmer on her family’s land in Mirtuto, a village in the coffee rich district of Ermera, 30 kilometers from Timor-Leste’s capital Dili.