Nuevo Amanecer

In 2012, Catholic Relief Services launched the Borderlands project to connect coffee growers in Nariño with the specialty market, offering farmers who had been divided by regional conflict a new path to prosperity through collaboration. Agrocafe El Tambo is one of the farmer associations that emerged from this effort. They chose to brand their coffee as Nuevo Amanecer, Spanish for “New Dawn,” as a nod to the paradigm shift. Each year, we reserve the highest-scoring coffees from the participating