Since 2014, Kawas has cultivated direct relationships with coffee producers in more than five countries in the Americas, with whom it has traded hundreds of tons of specialty, fair trade and certified organic green beans.
With over a decade of experience selecting and importing green coffee to Chile, their multidisciplinary team, certified by the SCA in Brewing, Barista, Sensory, and Roasting, rigorously and diligently evaluates each lot. They have personally visited producers in Indonesia, Thailand, Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru in search of knowledge, personal relationships, and high-value coffee.
Their commitment establishes direct, trusting, and long-term relationships with coffee-growing partners, seeking out lots that align with their vision of value: transparency, quality, innovation, direct communication, and sustainability. They trade at fair prices, minimizing intermediaries, maximizing profits for producers, and bridging the gap between coffee grower and roaster, on a human scale.
Kawas not only connects producers, roasters, and consumers: it reinvests in coffee-growing communities through long-term social and environmental projects that enable generational renewal in small-scale farming. Proud to be importers with organic certification in Chile from the SAG (Agricultural and Livestock Service), they are working to partner with farms owned and operated by women.
Every coffee has a story to tell: Kawas openly shares photographic content and videos from its partners at origin, guaranteeing full traceability, freshness of the current year's harvest, and transparency in price breakdowns. This project understands that without farms, there is no coffee, and that an ethical value chain empowers communities while building resilient farms that endure over time.
