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Buna works with Mexican producers through soil testing and management practices. All images courtesy of Buna.
Launched as a small cafe by a pair of high school friends in 2012, Mexico City-based coffee company Buna has since evolved to offer a unique vision for protecting Mexican ecosystems.
Now a full-fledged roasting company with high-end restaurant clients throughout North America, Buna embraces the concept that the loss of complex ecosystems in places where coffee is grown can translate to unusable land. Thus, the company offers a three-tiered approach to ecosystem protection that values social relationships.
“You can’t conserve an ecosystem if your only focus is on the environment or on the economics,” Buna Head of Commercial Projects Alberto Rivera told DCN. “It’s like taking a leg out of a table.”