I recently spent time in Rwanda with the Kula Project, an Atlanta-based non-profit that helps families in East Africa grow and sell coffee to eliminate poverty. Together we visited a farm community in ...
Across Rwanda’s hills, coffee farmers are reaping the results of more than a decade of collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Over the past 12 years, JICA has supported ...
Gemima Mukashyaka was a teenager when her parents and six of her eight siblings were killed in the Rwandan genocide that claimed the lives of nearly 1 million Tutsis. The daughter of Rwandan coffee ...
This is part two of a two-part interview with Paul Stewart, the global coffee director for TechnoServe. The nonprofit ...
KIGALI (Reuters) - More skilfull farmers will bring a jump in Rwanda's connoisseur coffee crop and income this year, the head of the coffee regulator told Reuters on Thursday. Output will to rise 27 ...
For Saint Louis University senior Firaol Ahmed, coffee isn’t merely a means to jumpstart his day. Nor is it a fleeting comfort. The drink—and the humble bean from which it is made—offers a pathway to ...
KIGALI (Reuters) - U.S. coffee retail giant Starbucks will start selling a high grade variety of fairtrade-certified Rwandan coffee in Britain and Ireland next year, the company said over the weekend.
African smallholder farmers, agro-dealers, and exporters are increasingly facing compliance pressure as deadline to implement the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) nears.