Reviving Congo’s coffee industry

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SPONSORED | Nespresso hopes to turn the industry around with its Reviving Origins programme. Read more.

Subscribe to the Wanted Online newsletter to stand a chance to win a Nespresso hamper valued at R10,083Available in SA, the Reviving Origins Kahawa ya Congo blend is just one of the ways Nespresso plans to uplift the people in Congo. Picture: SUPPLIED/NESPRESSO

The programme’s iteration in the DRC has produced a blend called Reviving Origins Kahawa ya Congo, a sweet, fruity, flavourful coffee from Lake Kivu’s volcanic shores. Nespresso, together with global non-profit TechnoServe, the US Agency for International Development and coffee trader Virunga Coffee/Olam International, are working with 2,500 farmers in South Kivu to improve coffee quality and yield, and embed sustainable farming practices, while increasing incomes.

“In my whole life, no-one has ever given me such a bonus. I can use that to develop other strategies, such as raising small livestock, or my wife can run a small business. I am starting to see the results of my work.”Available in SA, the Reviving Origins Kahawa ya Congo blend is just one of the ways Nespresso plans to uplift the people in Congo.

The programme is also in the process of expanding across North Kivu to potentially include up to 1,700 organic certified farmers. Beyond the speciality blend,has partnered with the Eastern Congo Initiative, to support the establishment of 23 water access points across the Kivu region, in addition to one primary and five mobile health clinics, which will deliver 13,000 health consultations per year to local communities, helping in the fight against cholera, a major health issue in the country.

 

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