Organic Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Coffee, 200g bag

Equal Exchange partners with the Oromia Coffee Farmers’ Co-operative Union (OCFCU) to bring you this organic Yirgacheffe® coffee. Founded in 1999, OCFCU is the largest Fair Trade coffee producer in Ethiopia and a direct exporter of its coffee, bypassing the central auction and giving more control and market share to the producers. Traditionally agrochemicals have never been used; instead environmentally sound methods have developed over generations and continue to thrive. All of the coffee is shade grown amongst acacias and oaks. The coffee bushes are interspersed with plants such as cardamom and ginger, fruits such as papaya, mangoes and avocadoes, and root crops such as sweet potatoes. This intercropping helps to enhance the fertility of the soil, further enriching this already chemical free area.