Coffee Coops in Rwanda

Seema Patel — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:23:47 -0400

Managing Organization: The Maraba Coffee Coop

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http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/08/07/part-i-rwanda-finds-hope-in-premium-coffee

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Rwanda, a tiny East African country recently rent by a famously savage civil war, has found hope in that most colonial of crops: coffee. By riding booming demand in the developed world for specialty brews — and, to a certain extent, by turning its own challenges to its advantage — Rwanda has made premium coffee-growing a national priority. That has not only brought in a trickle of money to a country with little else to trade, but provided a stage on which one-time blood enemies can reconcile their terrible history.

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Coffee Coops in Rwanda