Original WSD editorial artwork for Sierra de Neiba Coffee.

Sierra de Neiba Coffee

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Original World Star Dominican editorial artwork; not documentary photography.

Image: World Star Dominican

Summary

It expands cuisine coverage into Bahoruco’s agricultural economy and connects a beverage product to farmers, roads, water, forest cover, and regional development.

Coffee production in the Sierra de Neiba is organized through regional producer groups and linked to agroforestry, watershed recovery, rural employment, and the Café de la Sierra brand.

A Bahoruco mountain-coffee tradition supported by organized producers and recent agroforestry and development initiatives.

It expands cuisine coverage into Bahoruco’s agricultural economy and connects a beverage product to farmers, roads, water, forest cover, and regional development.

Current sources document organized producer institutions and 2023–2024 development interventions; a longer coffee history remains to be researched.

Coverage should distinguish the regional product, producer organizations and specific brands rather than treating all coffee from the southwest as identical.