
🇪🇹Ethiopia

Mate Matiwos is a smallholder coffee producer based in the Bensa region of Sidama, Ethiopia. He is recognized for his work in producing high-quality, single-producer lots that have gained international attention through specialty coffee roasters and competition success.
Matiwos has been a long-term partner of the importer Crop to Cup, which has facilitated the export of his coffee. In recent years, he has transitioned to producing single-producer washed coffees, supported by investments in processing equipment.
Editorial illustrations of the harvest and farm work our research documented — anonymous figures, never real likenesses.




