Ecuador Farmer’s Collection PCA 2026

Built around smallholder farmers, the collection brings together coffees from across Ecuador’s producing regions, shaped by the country’s geographic diversity, distinctive varieties, and decisions made at farm level.

The programme draws on the same principles that shaped Best of Yemen: careful selection, rigorous evaluation, and international visibility, applied to Ecuador, an origin with its own depth and complexity.

Both Qima Coffee and the Alliance for Coffee Excellence have been working in Ecuador for many years, engaging with producers, institutions, and local partners across the country. We hope this first edition marks the beginning of a new chapter for Ecuadorian coffee.

Ecuador is one of the most geographically diverse coffee-producing countries in the world. Along the Andes, distinct ecosystems meet over short distances, from cloud forests and highland valleys to Amazonian transition zones, creating highly varied growing environments.

This diversity is reflected in how coffee expresses itself. Ecuador is known for varieties such as Sidra and Typica Mejorada, as well as the distinctive expression of varieties like Geisha and Sudan Rume when grown in Ecuadorian conditions.

Coffee in Ecuador is produced primarily by smallholder farmers, often on family-run and diversified farms. Alongside long-established practices, a new generation of producers is engaging more deeply with coffee, investing in quality and processing, and shaping how Ecuadorian coffee is evolving.