About Sweet Unity Farms
Coffee Farms Coming Together
Sweet Unity Farms gourmet coffee is grown exclusively by
small-scale, family owned farms. These individuals then form
farmer managed cooperatives. The groups come together to bring
Sweet Unity Farms to the market, and to you.
The beauty of East Africa is legendary. So is its poverty.
Tanzanian coffee farmers are often forced to sell their harvest
to large corporate buyers. This series of transactions takes
virtually all of the earnings away from the farmers.
Why It Works
In leveraging their unity, the coffee farmers can seek direct
trade buyers from large American and European markets. The
result is a Sweet Unity Farms that can invest in itself and its
community.
By building direct trade agreements with distributors, Sweet
Unity Farms eliminates the mid-level buyers and sellers. The
results are widespread:
• Help to needy communities
• Development in impoverished areas
• Equitable pay for coffee farmers and pickers
• Direct inspection of coffee quality standards
• Better control of environmental standards
• Education for future generations
• Leadership out of poverty and into dignity
Sweet Unity Farms Coffee -- Goes Green
 Sweet Unity Farms is securing solar panels for members of the
co-op. Each five-watt solar panel supplies:
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Four hours of
electricity to a single light bulb, allows children to study
into the evening and eliminate the danger of flame lit
(candles) lighting.
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Continuous
operation of radios and/or electronic equipment during the day
allowing for communication, information, and entertainment
The Distributor
Up-Country International Products buys coffee from Sweet Unity
Farms through direct trade. By ensuring equity between buyer and
seller, coffee moves from Africa to America, improving the
quality of life on both sides of the Atlantic.
Organizations linked to Up-Country International Products by
direct trade agreements are committed to producing coffee
excellence. They are also builders of human development.
Up-Country strives to develop a part of the world were farmers
are both tillers of the soil and leaders, plowmen and planners
of their community’s future.
Up-Country has assisted the individual farmers that make up the
Mshikamano cooperative to secure and finance solar panels, tin
roofing and well water digging projects in farming villages, in
large part, through its direct trade payment formula.
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