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Trading small coffee farmers’ goods for goodness of our communities

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Communal Shamba Coffee was established by young Tanzanian farmers to facilitate trade of green coffee from smallholder farmers in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands to the world. We are farmers working with fellow farmers to harvest and process specialty green beans, ready for export to our global network of roasters and buyers.

Communal Shamba coffee is a catalyst for long term social change, going beyond direct trading and fairer pricing. We focus on creating sustainable impact for the coffee farming community in Tanzania.

ORIGIN + COMMUNITY

Mkulima Kwanza Co-operative is a collective of smallholder farmers.

Our cooperation contributes economic security to farmers who rely on coffee to make ends meet by ensuring fairer and stable prices. We are proud to pay fair prices with premiums for the fantastic coffee that this cooperative produces each year. 

In the future we hope to reach more coffee farmers in the region, working with them to grow and maintain farms sustainability and export green beans coffee through our partner buyers and roasters.

Producers: Various Smallholder Farmers
Locality: Ihowa, Mbozi district
Arabica Varietals: Kent & Bourbon
Altitude: 1600 – 1800 above Sea Levels

Mkulima Kwanza is a fully registered Agricultural Marketing Co-Operative Society (AMCOS) based in Tanzania’s southern highland region of Songwe. In collaboration with Communal Shamba Coffee, Mkulima Kwanza is the first and only Co-Op in southern Tanzania to specialise in processing non-washed Arabica coffees.

Communal Shamba Coffee teamed up with fellow smallholder farmers to establish Mkulima Kwanza and collaborate in producing and processing specialty coffee using experimental approaches, which increase farmers’ premium prices, reduce production costs and improve quality from farm to cup. This Co-Op’s focus is on “mkulima kwanza” (translated from Swahili this means “farmers first”).

Coffee: a catalyst for change

Our hope is not just to produce good coffee but to use coffee as an agent for long term change for those who grow it. Communal Shamba Coffee works with Mkulima Kwanza and the community in Ihowa village to create change beyond better coffee prices. The members of Ihowa village identified education and health as priority areas for intervention. Together with Mkulima Kwanza, committed coffee roasters and the Ihowa community, we are improving a local maternal health facility and improving infrastructure at Ihowa Primary School.

Stories from Shamba

Shamba NOUN (Swahili) a cultivated plot of ground; a farm or plantation.

Mama Mbunda

What a gem. Her lifetime of coffee farming experience and the hard work she puts into caring for her farms means that she has produced some of the best coffee during this harvest. She is our mama; she is a key farmer but also kind heartedly offered part of her farm space for processing in our first harvest season. She still continues to feed and accommodate Communal Shamba team members during the harvest season.

Mama Mbunda embodies the Tanzanian spirit of Upendo na Umoja (Love and Unity in Swahili) and shows the impact of communal living in achieving a common goal. It is experiences like these that define the Communal Shamba ethos: Farm goods for goodness of our communities.

Stories from Shamba

Shamba NOUN (swahili) a cultivated plot of ground; a farm or plantation.

Raphael

Raphael owns three coffee farms with a total of 2500 coffee trees. Some of these trees were handed down from his grandfather who planted them in the 1950s. His coffee experience has been expanded through previously working as a coffee buyer/collector for various companies during harvest seasons. He plays a crucial role in quality control and assurance for our operations.

Raphael will be key for implementing our ambitious production goals in 2020. It is part of our social impact objectives to continuously create jobs within communities for coffee farmers such as Raphael.

Stories from Shamba

Shamba NOUN (swahili) a cultivated plot of ground; a farm or plantation.

Hatson

Hatson comes from a family of second generation coffee farmers and his inherited commitment to producing stellar coffee is beyond explanation. We fondly remember how Hatson religiously watered his 2500 trees using a bucket during the 2017 season when the rainy season was delayed. It definitely paid off as he produced some of the best cherries within the village that season.

He plays a critical role in integrating Communal Shamba into the community, helping us to build new infrastructure, connecting us with various stakeholders and providing transportation.

These relationships will be extended in the 2020 season. Keep following our journey and expect a tasty cup from us soon!

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    For those in Dar-es-salaam, lets catch up this Saturday; 

Reposted from @sndbx_byid8 #MeetOurSpeaker for November’s #CoffeeAndConcepts. Keremba Warioba is a coffee farmer and co-founder of the only Tanzanian owned coffee exporter in the southern highlands of Tanzania in Mbeya/Songwe. 

After spending almost a decade in the mining industry, Keremba opted for life of a farmer in 2012. He started a horticulture farming while still employed as a longhole driller in underground mines. In 2015 he realised the full potential of agribusiness in Tanzania and spent the next two years, developing a model that would allow him to farm and reinvest in other farmers’ wellbeing through producing valuable produce, finding better market opportunities but also supporting our communities. This was intended to be achieved through value addition and creativity in producing high quality, in demand products and a sustainable social enterprise model.

Get to hear more from Keremba of @communalshambacoffee and also come for a caffeinated morning for you and your tastebuds. RSVP via the Registration link on our bio. Limited seats. #StoryTelling #Tanzania #November #id8Space
    For those in Dar-es-salaam, lets catch up this Saturday; Reposted from @sndbx_byid8 #MeetOurSpeaker for November’s #CoffeeAndConcepts. Keremba Warioba is a coffee farmer and co-founder of the only Tanzanian owned coffee exporter in the southern highlands of Tanzania in Mbeya/Songwe. After spending almost a decade in the mining industry, Keremba opted for life of a farmer in 2012. He started a horticulture farming while still employed as a longhole driller in underground mines. In 2015 he realised the full potential of agribusiness in Tanzania and spent the next two years, developing a model that would allow him to farm and reinvest in other farmers’ wellbeing through producing valuable produce, finding better market opportunities but also supporting our communities. This was intended to be achieved through value addition and creativity in producing high quality, in demand products and a sustainable social enterprise model. Get to hear more from Keremba of @communalshambacoffee and also come for a caffeinated morning for you and your tastebuds. RSVP via the Registration link on our bio. Limited seats. #StoryTelling #Tanzania #November #id8Space
    It's an honor to be nominated for Global Start Awards - Africa category. We kindly ask our social media tribe to support us by voting. Link on Insta bio
    It's an honor to be nominated for Global Start Awards - Africa category. We kindly ask our social media tribe to support us by voting. Link on Insta bio
    Reposted from @perfectdailygrind ● Tanzanian coffee only makes up 0.7% of the global coffee trade, but it is the largest export crop in the country. It is estimated that over 400,000 smallholder farming households are responsible for 95% of the coffee production here. ⁠
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● Since the late 1990s, coffee wilt disease and a number of other environmental challenges have meant that individual plant yields have decreased. Furthermore, farm gate prices in Tanzania remain low.⁠
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● Tanzanian coffee is classically associated with the washed coffee profile: clean, bright, and floral. Arabica comprises 70% of all coffee grown in the country, and the main varieties are Bourbon and Kent. However, other popular varieties include Typica, Nyassa, and N39. ⁠
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● In the past, coffee buyers, exporters, and coffee processors in Tanzania generally preferred to buy coffee as cherry. This was the case until 2018, when the new regulations came into effect. Now, coffee is widely sold as green beans, either through auctions or through direct export. ⁠
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● Learn more about the Tanzanian coffee sector in today’s article. 👉🏻 Click the link in our bio! #PerfectDailyGrind⁠
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● Article by Peter Gakuo (@snrchieph)
    Reposted from @perfectdailygrind ● Tanzanian coffee only makes up 0.7% of the global coffee trade, but it is the largest export crop in the country. It is estimated that over 400,000 smallholder farming households are responsible for 95% of the coffee production here. ⁠ ⁠ ● Since the late 1990s, coffee wilt disease and a number of other environmental challenges have meant that individual plant yields have decreased. Furthermore, farm gate prices in Tanzania remain low.⁠ ⁠ ● Tanzanian coffee is classically associated with the washed coffee profile: clean, bright, and floral. Arabica comprises 70% of all coffee grown in the country, and the main varieties are Bourbon and Kent. However, other popular varieties include Typica, Nyassa, and N39. ⁠ ⁠ ● In the past, coffee buyers, exporters, and coffee processors in Tanzania generally preferred to buy coffee as cherry. This was the case until 2018, when the new regulations came into effect. Now, coffee is widely sold as green beans, either through auctions or through direct export. ⁠ ⁠ ● Learn more about the Tanzanian coffee sector in today’s article. 👉🏻 Click the link in our bio! #PerfectDailyGrind⁠ ⁠ ● Article by Peter Gakuo (@snrchieph)
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    Ready for the results after a year of research and development. We are Communal Shamba. Coffee. Farmers. Community #communalshambacoffee #goodsforgoodness
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    "The one standing here is a president of United Republic of Tanzania whose gender is a woman" President/Commander-In-Chief Mama Samia Suluhu Hassan While we are still mourning, we want to congratulate and embrace new era of our new president as we write history during the women's month. Tanzania has lifted the glass ceiling for many African women.
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