EP 1052 Part 2 of 5 | How El Niño Is Changing Colombia's Coffee Harvest (Ana Maria Donneys) | Map It Forward
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Episode Description
This is part 2 of a 5-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward, hosted by Lee Safar. Our guest in this series is Ana Maria Donneys, a fifth-generation Colombian coffee producer, founder of Café Primitivo in Quindío, Colombia, and president and co-founder of IWCA Colombia.
In this series, Lee and Ana explore how Colombian coffee farmers are navigating 2026’s volatility across the C Market, climate, liquidity, politics, pricing, and producer-roaster relationships.
In this episode, Lee and Ana focus on El Niño and how it is already impacting the coffee harvest in Colombia.
Ana explains where Café Primitivo is in the harvest cycle, what happened during the Mitaca, and why the second semester harvest may be far more difficult. She describes the practical signs farmers are seeing on the ground: higher heat, less rain, dry soil, struggling young trees, disease pressure, and cherries that may not develop properly.
This conversation also looks at why Colombia is not prepared for irrigation in the way some other producing countries may be, why a smaller harvest does not automatically mean better outcomes for farmers, and why many Colombian producers are entering the second half of the year exhausted and uncertain.
For roasters, buyers, importers, and coffee business owners, this episode offers an important origin-side view of what El Niño could mean for supply, quality, pricing, and producer resilience over the next 6 to 18 months.
Connect with Ana and Café Primitivo here:
https://www.instagram.com/cafeprimitivo/
https://www.instagram.com/anadonneys/