SDG 12 + SDG 15
Naranja, Café y Pimienta (Machetá, Cundinamarca, Colombia)
What it is: A family-run natural reserve and micro-producer of shade-grown arabica coffee, honey, ají rojo, panela, and quinoa. The reserve sits at ~2,100 m and is part of RESNATUR (Colombia’s civil society reserve network). Production is biodiversity-friendly, no agrochemicals, and artisanal from harvest to roast and packaging.
Flagship product: Café Bosque de Mulatá (500 g) — medium body; balanced acidity/sweetness/aroma; origin Vereda Mulatá (Machetá); altitude 2,100 m; hand-picked ripe cherries; sun-dried.
Contact/handle: naranjacafepimienta@gmail.com • Instagram: @naranjacafepimienta.
Logistics
SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption/Production: low-input, shade-grown, artisanal processing.
SDG 15 – Life on Land: biodiversity-friendly coffee under tree canopy; part of a civil society reserve network.
Advisor — Paola Agostini
Who Paola Agostini is
Paola Agostini is a Lead Natural Resources Management Specialist at the World Bank (Environment, Natural Resources & Blue Economy Global Practice). She previously served as the Bank’s Global Lead for Forests, Landscapes & Ecosystems, and her work spans Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Central Asia—often focused on landscape restoration and nature-positive rural economies.
Her role with GYDI (Colombia fieldwork).
Paola provided personal mentorship and small-grant support that enabled site visits and student interviews at Naranja, Café y Pimienta (Machetá, Cundinamarca).
Her guidance shaped our focus on biodiversity-friendly production (shade coffee, no agrochemicals) and how to present it through the UN SDGs lens (SDG 12 Responsible Consumption & Production; SDG 15 Life on Land). Any errors or opinions are ours alone; support was personal and does not imply endorsement by the World Bank.
Why she’s relevant to this project.
Agostini has led and advised programs that connect farms, forests, and livelihoods (e.g., shade-grown coffee landscapes and silvopastoral systems), and co-authored foundational work on payments for ecosystem services in agricultural areas—an approach used widely in Latin America. She’s also part of recent World Bank teams on urban trees and cooling.
Journey
Methods and Project (Slides)
Video
Hand-Picking Coffee
Drying and Sorting Coffee Beans
Feeding Goats Salt to sustain
From Hillside to City: Coffee, Trucks, and How Bogotá Eats
This case connects my coffee-farm fieldwork to Bogotá’s urban food system. The PDF shows how a centralized network and fragile roads create city shortages and price shocks—and why local fixes (community gardens, food banks, diversified routes) matter. Together, they explain how a bean—or a bag of rice—actually reaches people
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