East Africa Coffee Program

Long-term Vision: A world in which all coffee farming households earn at least a living income, where risk and value are distributed fairly throughout the supply chain and where coffee is a thriving part of a healthy ecosystem.

Strategy 2025: Through convening, sourcing and branding practices, and field level impact, living income and climate resilience in coffee have become the norm and distribution of risk and value have been rebalanced.

Convening:

  • Supporting existing institutions in tabling issues such as living income and value distribution.
  • Linking convening discussions to action on the ground through alignment of origin programs

Partnerships with Private Sector:

Developing strategic partnerships with brands and traders to source for living income and fair value distribution and take a supply chain outlook rather than focus on farmer programs.

Origin programs:

Building evidence and learnings through field level interventions and local convening in four origins.

Our portfolio:

EAST AFRICA LIVING INCOME (EALI)

  • Kenya
  • Uganda

Creating and/or strengthen a multi-stakeholder approach towards integrating living income into the coffee sector through measurement and closing of living income gaps for coffee farming households.

COFFEE FARMER INCOME RESILIENCE PROGRAM (CFIRP)

  • Kenya
  • Uganda

Improving coffee farmer income resilience through integration of regenerative agriculture and blended services to diversified farming systems.

COFFEE AS A NATURE-BASED SOLUTION (CNBS)

  • Uganda

(Program is not yet launched)

Positioning coffee to be a nature-based solution to climate change by avoiding sector-driven deforestation and by meeting supply chain due diligence legal requirements while at the same time giving coffee farmers a decent livelihood