PURPOSE

• Help maintain a long-standing local activity and defend biodiversity and ecological balance of the forest;
• Forest coffee harvesting is an extremely valuable resource in defending biodiversity, as it reduces environmental impact to a minimum;
• Direct intervention to support small communities will make an enormous contribution in achieving the double objective of conservation and sustainable resource use;
• Creation of a producer association and a collective trademark;
• Improved quality and quantity of forest coffee with particular attention to eliminating the fermentation problem in the finished product;
  promotion of the product in the domestic and international markets;
• Strengthened cooperative structure and inclusion of processing communities in the network;
• Inclusion of the Presidium in the Terra Madre network to facilitate exchange and communication between producers.

This project was possible thanks to the support of Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity, Ethio Organic Seeds Action (EOSA), Specialty Coffee Certification (CSC) and the EFICO Foundation and ran from October 2009 to October 2010.