ORIGIN FOCUS: RWANDA
Tiny East African grower Rwanda started growing coffee around 1904 when German missionaries first brought Arabica seeds from the coffee producing region around Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Also known as…
Category Archives: Origin Focus
The Rwanda Genocide – A Coffee Conflict!
Contrary to popular belief the Rwanda genocide was very much a conflict about coffee. Up until the genocide in April 1994 coffee exports accounted for as much as 70 percent…
Rwanda’s Maraba Coop And Reconciliation Through Coffee
As Rwanda struggled to get back on its feet after the genocide the coffee sector quickly became a central focal point for economic attention. And with that came admirable and…
Rwanda Coffee Industry And The Genocide Widow Survivors
Up to as many as 1 million people were killed during the Rwanda genocide in 1994 and humanitarian groups estimate that as many as 500,000 widow genocide survivors were left…
Women Empowerment at Rwanda’s Maraba Coffee Coop
At the Maraba coffee coop a strong focus on reconciliation combined with the efforts of several international coffee companies have helped the women get back on the road toward social…
Rwanda’s Quality Coffees Lure Foreign Coffee Roasters
While many growers in Rwanda are still struggling to get production back on track there are definite signs of the socio-economic conditions improving in Rwanda. As far as the coffee…
As Rwanda Rebuilds Country Through Coffee Production is Up
The Rwanda genocide broke out at the height of the coffee harvest that year in April and May and left the crop completely ruined and total output that year dived…
ORIGIN FOCUS: VIETNAM
Vietnam first started growing coffee in 1856, decades before other coffee producing countries much more famous for its beans like Kenya and Tanzania embarked on coffee cultivation, yet as a…
Vietnam’s Coffee Boom Designed to Target Poverty Eradication
The “Coffee Development Plan” was put into motion by Vietnam’s Agriculture Ministry in Hanoi between 1970 and 1971, well before the official end of the Vietnam War in April 1975….
Vietnam is the World’s 2nd Largest Coffee Grower
The first new coffee plantings were launched in northern Nghe An province as early as 1973. After the end of the war the Vietnamese government quickly moved into the Central…
