A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD

whereas poorer households difficultly satisfy their food needs and consequently are unable to
invest in other activities.
Among the 27,004 coffee producing households of Limu Kosa 39 , 3,762 are members
of the Limu Inara Farmers Multi-purpose Cooperative Union 40 . That means they sell their
coffee to the service cooperative they are members, this latter selling it to the union of which
it is member. Thus the most exhaustive list of producers is in the hands of the union’s staff.
To prevent any confusion, it is important to consider that they mainly are better-off farmers.
Anyway they constitute an organized basis for the implementation of any project. Currently
actors of the Limmuu Organic Coffee Project 41
implying Oxfam GB, they could be the
introducing gate for geographical indication.
39 Refer 6.2.1) Woreda’s coffee rules: Limu Kosa woreda.
40 Refer 6.2.2) The Limu Inara Multi-purpose Cooperative Union, an initiatives’ leader?
41 Idem.
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