Social Impact:

KW&F4A impacts on rural employment, income generation and living conditions, contributing to increase welfare of over 2,700 Tanzanian rural coffee families by securing water protection and ecosystem restoration in 2 adjacent APK farms with 471 ha for coffee and food crops.

Expected social changes in 3 years are:

• improved water sovereignty in communities around the coffee farms by the quantity and quality of water supply, increasing small plot productivity and granting water access to rural communities;
• 2 cooperatives receive better incomes by 10% increase in profitability from recovered farm productivity;
• employment generation with 1,200 new permanent and seasonal jobs for cooperative members and local communities;
• access to agricultural knowledge, technology, and markets through capacity building on water management skills for 200+ APK staff;
• female employment and social protection through inclusive gender policies in the APK farms, where 70% of the workforce is female.

Environmental Impact:

KW&F4A protects and restores natural capital for coffee production (soil, water, biodiversity) to increase productivity and resilience to climate change by:

• introducing good water management, stewardship practices in agriculture, ecosystem restoration and reducing CO2 emissions in 471 Ha coffee & food crops of 2 adjacent farms and the Weruweru river;
• changing the current flood and open channel/furrow irrigation for closed pipelines and exact drip and sprinkler systems will prevent water leakages and evaporation, allowing optimal crop water uptake and increasing water efficiency by 70%;
• eliminating the use of 7 diesel electric generators to pump water, by installing water transportation per gravity. The strategy validates a replicable model to further 5 States in Kilimanjaro, in collaboration with local coffee cooperatives and NGOs.

The project is scalable through the sector and has also effects on cultural change and multi-stakeholder engagement for the positive transformation of the coffee sector, recognizing the importance of values like protecting nature, participation, regeneration, prosperity, innovation, cooperation.

This project is possible thanks to the partnership of African Plantations Kilimanjaro (APK), Herencia - Value Your Legacy, Kijani Pamoja, 6 rural cooperatives, EFICO and the EFICO Foundation and runs from July 2023 to December 2025.

It contributes to SDG 5 Gender Equality, SDG 6 Clean Water & Sanitation, SDG 8 Decent Work & Economic Growth, SDG 12 Responsible Production & Consumption, SDG 13 Climate Action and SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals.