Women Owned Coffee Farms
Women Owned Coffee Farms
Women-owned coffee farms are a focus of the green coffee options Artisan offers their roasters. All of our Rwanda green coffee offerings are produced on and harvested from women-owned coffee farms. Our women-owned coffee farms in Rwanda are made up of five women’s groups, including Agasaro and Ejo Heza.
Our women-owned coffee farms in Rwanda includes: Aagasaro, part of the COCAGI co-op with 291 women, which has focused efforts on training women to be official cuppers and have hired two female agronomists.
Rwanda’s Women-Owned Coffee Groups
Another Rwanda-based women-owned coffee farm is the Rambagirakawa women’s group, which is a sub-cooperative of all female Rambagira women in the Dukunde Kawa cooperative. With 70 women in the women-owned coffee group based in Rwanda, the women group focuses on supporting women and the community.
The Rwanda-based cooperative, Kopakaki Dutegure, has 265 women members in the women-group of the coffee farm, Agaseke. Their coffees are processed separately on a specific day of the week to provide clear traceability to the women-owned coffee group.
Women-Owned Coffee Groups in Rwanda
Also, in Rwanda, the Bwishaza cooperative has 206 women in the Kungahara women’s group for women-owned coffee production. They have training in infrastructure and training in quality, new processes and marketing, where the women take part in tending the trees and working in the field.
The women-owned coffee farm portion of the Kopakama cooperative, called the Ejo Heza, is made up of 473 women and was formed in 2011. This women’s group in the coffee farm runs regular experiments with the weeding and mulching processes to lower the production costs and maintain volumes for their women-grown coffee farm production.
Ethiopian Women-Owned Coffee Farm
Our Ethiopian coffee products are a blend of women-owned coffee farms and women-grown coffee farms for transparently traded green coffee.
At Artisan, we strive to boost sales of women-owned and women-grown coffee farms. Every contract in Rwanda is signed by a woman representing the women’s group and a set price is agreed upon for transparent and fair trade.
Through our direct trade coffee approach, we are able to directly connect farmers with the market and help to motivate farmers to produce more with fewer inputs and continue to source the valuable coffee resources responsibly. In the direct trade coffee process, Artisan provides education and support to the farmers – including “lean at origin” training to measure quality, understand pricing, and increasing throughput of the depulping machine, among others. Through the direct trade coffee process, Artisan also supports farmers with cost assessments to help measure and reduce costs throughout the harvesting process. At Artisan, we are motivated to rationalize costs to improve our ability to pay our farmers through direct trade for quality coffee. We further offer business planning to highlight profitability and scalability in our direct trade coffee farm partnerships.