Politic offerings focus on the people, the communities, and the traditions that a coffee-plant was harvested within. As much as an environment influences the growth of a coffee, the peoples who cultivate and harvest it do so too. Inside every country that grows coffee coffee grows differently,
that is, in accordance with the demands of the region growing the coffee. In other words, how people cultivate coffee in one country is not identical to how-to grow coffee in a region in a different country that exhibits different ecological factors. By understanding that people tend to
their coffee-plants differently - and, in accordance with ecological conditions - Politic offerings focus on how the stewards of a coffee lot, farm, or plantation act in certain ways to ensure that the people who are dependent upon its productivity are satiated. The fruits of a coffee-farmer’s labor are reaped when their plants have a plentiful production and harvest. Politic lays its emphasis on the subtleties of how satisfaction is derived from the cultivation of the coffee-plant.
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The history of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has overshadowed many of the efforts increasing local-welfare. Kaffae’s Congolese coffee is delicate and savory, on the palate it is bright and tangy. There cherries were collected by SOPACDI (Solidarité Paysanne pour la Promotion des Actions Cafe et Developement Integral) [translation: Peasant Solidarity for the Promotion of Cafe Actions and Integral Development], an organization the collects coffee from small-scale farmers (a farmers lot averaging less than 2 hectares). Inside of SOPACDI are two initiatives that help coffee-growers access the coffee-market: the Pygmies Coffee Project & the Women Producer Program. Together, these initiatives are composed of 105 Pygmy people, 51 of whom are women. In the history of the Congo the Pygmy Indigenous People have been heavily
discriminated against and marginalized. Today, they are vulnerable to any causes of deforestation because their semi-nomadic communities are dependent on the rainforest for their resources. To help preserve the Pygmy lifestyle, the government adopted a new law, ‘the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Indigenous Pygmy Peoples’ which lays emphasis on indigenous land rights. The new law acting in combination with the SOPACDI initiatives allows these previously marginalized people to not only earn an income from growing coffee on their land but to have an increased sense of security in doing so. [Search ‘Pygmy People’ at IUCN.org to read more about the new Law].
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Process: Washed
Score: 84
Farm: Unspecified
Mill: SOPACDI
Initiatives: Pygmies’ Coffee Project
& Women Producer Program
Varietal(s): Bourbon, Caturra, Catuai
Region: Kivu
Tart & Tangy
Cranberry, Grapefruit, Praline
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$16.00
The history of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has overshadowed many of the efforts increasing local-welfare. Kaffae’s Congolese coffee is delicate and savory, on the palate it is bright and tangy. There cherries were collected by SOPACDI (Solidarité Paysanne pour la
Promotion des Actions Cafe et Developement Integral) [translation: Peasant Solidarity for the Promotion of Cafe Actions and Integral Development], an organization the collects coffee from small-scale farmers (a farmers lot averaging less than 2 hectares). Inside of SOPACDI are two
initiatives that help coffee-growers access the coffee-market: the Pygmies Coffee Project & the Women Producer Program. Together, these initiatives are composed of 105 Pygmy people, 51 of whom are women. In the history of the Congo the Pygmy Indigenous People have been heavily
discriminated against and marginalized. Today, they are vulnerable to any causes of deforestation because their semi-nomadic communities are dependent on the rainforest for their resources. To help preserve the Pygmy lifestyle, the government adopted a new law, ‘the Promotion and
Protection of the Rights of the Indigenous Pygmy Peoples’ which lays emphasis on indigenous land rights. The new law acting in combination with the SOPACDI initiatives allows these previously marginalized people to not only earn an income from growing coffee on their land but to have an increased sense of security in doing so. [Search ‘Pygmy People’ at IUCN.org to read more about the new Law].
THE Features
politic: drc
Tart & Tangy
Cranberry, Grapefruit, Praline
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Process: Washed
Score: 84
Farm: Unspecified
Mill: SOPACDI
Initiatives: Pygmies’ Coffee Project
& Women Producer Program
Varietal(s): Bourbon, Caturra, Catuai
Region: Kivu
Process: Washed
