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Peet’s Tanzania Kilimanjaro Coffee
The Rich Result of our Partnership with TechnoServe and KILICAFE (Association of Kilimanjaro Family Farms)
Together with TechnoServe, a non-profit organization
dedicated to ending poverty in developing countries, Peet’s works directly with farmers in Tanzania to improve their livelihoods through improvements in quality. Peet’s coffee experts donate their time, both at home (evaluating coffees in Peet’s lab) and at origin.
Traditionally, small farms in Tanzania sold their few sacks of fresh coffee fruit in the nearest village, with little choice over whom to sell to or what price they would be paid. Now, through KILICAFE, more than 9,000 farmers process and export their own coffee, obtaining prices 70% higher.
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Who is TechnoServe?
Supported by a $46.9 million, four-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, TechnoServe has been an early leader in fighting poverty in East Africa. TechnoServe’s approach is distinctly different from certifying organizations, focusing on creating value through entrepreneurship. The organization’s success in Tanzania illustrates that there are varied and worthy approaches toward achieving the same goal. Learn more
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Peet’s India Peaberry Coffee
Social & Environmental Responsibility at Ekhill,
an Utz Certified Estate
India’s Elkhill Estate employs over 500 unionized
and salaried workers who live on site and receive
housing, healthcare and a living wage. Elkhill
pays bonuses, annual paid leave, workmen’s
compensation and maternity and retirement
benefi ts. There is also a day care center and
scholarships for outstanding students. In addition
to these social benefi ts, Elkhill maintains excellent
environmental standards and astonishing
biodiversity — the elephant in this photo is a
frequent visitor to the farm. Learn more
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Peet’s Las Hermanas Coffee
Inspiring Women Sustain their Community Through Quality
In the 1980s, the Sandinista revolution and consequent
Nicaraguan civil war left the country ravaged and poor. But
when the violence subsided, Nicaraguan women emerged as
landowners. Las Hermanas, which means “the sisters,” is a
small cooperative made up exclusively of women who grow
and mill their own coffee. It was started by visionary
agro-economist Fatima Ismael in 1999, when she noticed
that women farmers were consistently producing thehighestquality
coffee in the region. Now the quality premiums that Las
Hermanas coffee earns have been reinvested into three schools
and several pharmacies, and have created fi nancial stability
for the community. Peet’s has purchased virtually the entire
production of Las Hermanas coffee since 2001, and our buyers
work hand in hand with these women to continuously improve
the quality of their coffee. Learn more
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Peet’s Major Dickason’s Blend
A Showcase of Sustainable Quality, the
Story of Coope Dota
Exceptional coffee from Coope Dota enriches our
most famous blend — Major Dickason’s Blend®.
This small-farmer cooperative in Costa Rica has
been a partner of Peet’s for more than 20 years.
It is such a success story that it has almost
single-handedly supported the economy of an
entire valley since 1960. Through the benefi t of
multiple-year, premium fi xed-price contracts with
Peet’s, Coope Dota provides health, education,
even sports programs to members and employs
energy-effi cient technologies in its operations —
such as fueling coffee driers with coffee hulls and
capturing methane from coffee pulp.
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