The farming community in North Kivu has become accustomed to armed incursion, corruption and disease, but coffee offers hope as it is one of the only cash crops these producers grow.
The Kivu area is located at the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. This particular coffee is from a cooperation between coffee farmers, Farm Africa and the Virunga National Park. The coop encourages peace through the growing of specialty coffee.
The conditions here are ideal for growing coffee: deep, fertile, volcanic soil, high altitude and adequate rainfall.
