Café Africa Tanzania using its mult-stakeholders approach recently is implementing a project entitled: “Sustainable Rejuvenation of Coffee Production in Western Tanzania “ funded by JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts).
Café Africa Tanzania in collaboration with implementing partners signed MoUs with the KCU and KDCU Cooperative Unions (which each bring together 250 AMCOSs (Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Societies) across the entire region) and with the Regional Authority (Regional Administrative Secretary) TCB and Institute (TaCRI). The stakeholder model aims to combine different experiences, resources, creating inclusion, shared ownership, and sustainability.
Preparation for the 5-year project (2019 to 2024) began in the final months of 2019, with implementation from January 2020. Overall, it aims to impact 22,250 farmers (30% women) in the region.
Project objectives/Targets.
- To provide sustainable coffee production (National Sustainability Curriculum – NSC) training to 445 extension officers at district, ward and cooperative (AMCOS) levels over a three-year period and two years for the refresher’s trainings. This will in turn serve and reach an estimated 22,250 farmers in five years.
- To support and assist coffee farm rehabilitation & rejuvenation through gradual stumping of coffee trees of 6000 farmers over five years.
- To ensure financial inclusion to coffee Household by registering 22,250 Households with a financial institution.
- To establish coffee seedlings nurseries for multiplication of improved coffee seedling variety that are resistant to coffee wilt disease (CWT) and produce high yields per tree. the project will provide Multiplication of 600,000 clonal seedlings which will be distributed to farmers.
- To carry out advocacy and dialogue to promote good, stable coffee policies in the western zone through coffee stakeholders’ platforms.
