Rwanda

CO2 Decaf Lot 2 (Nkara, Remera, Nyarusiza Blend)

This C02 Decaf lot is comprised of three exceptional coffees from Rwanda. Read further to learn more about each lot and the decaffeination process.

The Musasa Dukunde Kawa cooperative has four washing stations lying high in Rwanda’s rugged northwest. Nkara – the cooperative’s third washing station – was built by the co-op in 2007 with profits earned from their first two washing stations, Ruli & Mblima and a bank loan. The washing station lies at 1,800 metres above sea level and serves farmers within the Ruli Sector of Rwanda’s Northern Province.

Farm Buf Nyarusiza Nzeyimana
Varietal Red Bourbon
Process Decaf
Altitude 1,800 metres above sea level
Town / City Ruli Sector, Gakenke District of Northern Province; Gasaka Sector, Nyamagabe District of Southern Province; Kamegeri Sector, Nyamagabe District of Southern Province
Region Gakenke District of Northern Province
Owner Musasa Dukunde Kawa Cooperative
Tasting Notes Blackberry, dark chocolate, dense
Farm Size 0.25 to 0.39 hectares on average

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CO2 Decaf Lot 2 (Nkara, Remera, Nyarusiza Blend)

Epiphanie, who was born in 1959, was widowed during the 1994 genocide – which claimed over 800,000 lives in just 3 months – chose not to leave her family’s small coffee farm. Instead she set about rebuilding and developing her business and with it the local community. She started Buf Café in 2003, when she established Remera washing station with a loan from the Rwandan Development Bank and the assistance of the USAID-financed PEARL project.

This transformational programme was aimed at switching the focus in the Rwandan coffee sector from a historic emphasis on quantity to one of quality – and so opening up Rwanda to the far higher-earning specialty coffee market. The programme and its successor, SPREAD, have been invaluable in helping Rwanda’s small-scale coffee farmers to rebuild their production in the wake of the devastating 1994 genocide and the 1990s world coffee crash.

Buf Café now owns four coffee washing stations – Remera, Nyarusiza, Ubumwe and Umurage. The company, which was serving less than 500 farmers in 2003, is now procuring coffee cherries from almost 7,000 smallholder farmers in the Southern province of Rwanda, among them 1,069 are registered members.

About Rwanda

Lying almost in the centre of the Africa, Rwanda is a fertile, mountainous, and compact nation, roughly half the size of Scotland and smaller than most US states. Officially Africa’s most densely populated country, it has been inhabited since the Iron Age, and its seemingly endless terraced hills are scattered with dwellings. The 11 million strong population is still largely rural, and around 90 percent of Rwandans are engaged in agriculture of some kind, though much of this is subsistence farming.