A coffee sector strategy that delivered impact and transparency while generating higher value.
Status | Completed |
Timeline | 2023–2025 |
Investment | EUR 250,000 over 2 years, with public co-financing from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) |
Location | The Netherlands and 6 farms at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania |
Partners | APK, Farmers Direct, Beans Coffee, Greencof, Hansson BV, Van Duijnen Koffie, Herencia VL and RVO |
Beneficiaries | The Dutch coffee sector and over 6,000 families from 6 rural cooperatives |
The Kilimanjaro Trust Coffee Partnership was an innovative, comprehensive and scalable model for risk management, benchmarking and capacity building along the coffee value chain.
With a multistakeholder, landscape and Agritech approach, it supported rural employment, ecosystem restoration, higher incomes and better living conditions in the Kilimanjaro region. In parallel, it strengthened the CSR strategies of the participating Dutch coffee companies and their compliance with EU due diligence regulations.
carried out by Dutch coffee companies together with APK, in the Netherlands and on 6 farms in Tanzania.
from 6 rural cooperatives benefited.
in the Dutch coffee sector.
across the coffee value chain.
