Rwanda - Musasa Dukunde Kawa Red Bourbon

‘Musasa’ means ‘a place to make a bed’ and ‘Dukunde Kawa’ means ‘let’s love coffee’ in Kinyarwanda - a reference to the power of coffee to improve the lives of those in rural communities.

Most of the smallholder producers with whom Musasa Dukunde Kawa works own less than a quarter of a  hectare of land, where they cultivate an average of only 250 - 300 coffee trees each as well as other  subsistence food crops such as maize and beans. He gives these small farmers the chance to  combine their harvests and process cherries centrally. Before the proliferation of washing stations such as  Ruli, the norm in Rwanda was for small farmers to sell semi-processed cherries on to a middleman, and the  market was dominated by a single exporter.