About The Dukunde Kawa Cooperative
This is an innovative cooperative in Rwanda that supports 1,193 smallholder farmers by providing health insurance, long-term savings pension insurance, and investing in their local community. Dukunde Kawa reinvests 50 percent of revenue into community programs, education, microloans and farmers' livelihoods. It also upholds impressive quality standards: farmers receive training in sustainable practices and selective harvesting, and all coffee cherries undergo rigorous quality control at the washing station to guarantee specialty-grade beans.
The Dukunde Kawa cooperative also collaborates with One Acre Fund, a social enterprise that works with smallholder farmers, equipping them with the supplies, training, and market access to help them thrive. This collaboration is a wonderful alignment of farmer expertise, equitable incentives, and high quality standards that make this cooperative successful and competitive on the global market.
About One Acre Fund
One Acre Fund works with the Dukunde Kawa Co-op to provide access to the inputs that coffee farmers need to create sustainable and productive coffee crops. One Acre Funds puts farmers first in everything they do, helping farmers grow more food, plant more trees, and earn more money from their harvests. One method to boost coffee production is through agroforestry, planting native plants and shade trees among coffee plants to prevent soil erosion, retain water, boost soil health, regulate temperature, as well as providing a long-term crop of timber for the farmer. Last year, farmer members of Dukunde Kawa planted more than 17,000 shade trees as part of this collaboration with One Acre Fund.
One Acre Fund was founded in 2006 and now operates in nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa, working to make sure smallholder farmers have access to high-quality farm inputs, financing, agricultural training and strong markets. Learn more about One Acre Fund at oneacrefund.org.
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