Mountain Harvest’s model improves the quality of life for smallholder coffee farmers and supports healthy and thriving natural ecosystems. It emphasises the need to boost productivity and improve profitability at the farm level by focusing on the promotion of regenerative agricultural practices across 1,042 farmers and facilitating youth employment in agriculture. By elevating the quality of coffee into a specialty coffee market, Mountain Harvest disconnects pricing from commodity markets and uses additional margins generated from higher prices to pay farmers up 30% higher farm gate prices.
Read about the lessons learned from the project here.
The final project review is available here.