A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD
A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD
A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD
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What do <strong>coffee</strong> plots mean in the <strong>Limu</strong> Inara Farmers Mutli-Purpose Cooperative<br />
Uni<strong>on</strong> framework?<br />
<strong>Coffe</strong>e trees<br />
1 ha<br />
Illustrati<strong>on</strong> 26: <strong>Coffe</strong>e plot? (prod: Bossolasco, 2009)<br />
A single farmer owns <strong>on</strong>e or more <strong>coffee</strong> plots: in his garden, around his house and in<br />
agro-forests in a <strong>on</strong>e-km-radius generally. Here, plots mean units. But according to uni<strong>on</strong><br />
standards, <strong>on</strong>e plot is 0.5 ha of <strong>coffee</strong>. That means <strong>on</strong>e plot could be the sum of two <strong>coffee</strong><br />
units of 0.25 ha. In our example, the blue corresp<strong>on</strong>ds to <strong>on</strong>e <strong>coffee</strong> plot (in fact two distinct<br />
<strong>coffee</strong> units), the yellow also to <strong>on</strong>e <strong>coffee</strong> plot (in fact <strong>on</strong>e <strong>coffee</strong> unit) and the green to two<br />
<strong>coffee</strong> plots (in fact <strong>on</strong>e <strong>coffee</strong> unit). This space measurement allows the uni<strong>on</strong> staff counting<br />
and registering plots in a realistic method. Otherwise it would be very difficult to register each<br />
<strong>coffee</strong> place, and to c<strong>on</strong>sider its relative importance. Anyway, this representati<strong>on</strong> of <strong>coffee</strong><br />
space spreading is the best existing model to reflect the reality, and is correlated with the real<br />
and especially relative number of <strong>coffee</strong> units per grower. Another example: if the <strong>coffee</strong> area<br />
of a single grower is 2 ha and its number of <strong>coffee</strong> plots is 3, it means that 0.5 ha are not<br />
registered by the uni<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Farmer home and<br />
garden<br />
<strong>Coffe</strong>e plot<br />
<strong>Coffe</strong>e trees<br />
0.5 ha<br />
<strong>Coffe</strong>e trees<br />
0.25 ha<br />
<strong>Coffe</strong>e trees<br />
0.25 ha<br />
Kamisee Baabiyaa is the woreda farmers’ associati<strong>on</strong> where can be found the more<br />
<strong>coffee</strong> plots per farmer: a four-average <strong>coffee</strong> plots per better-off peasant. Why? Because this<br />
kebele is the most forest covered <strong>on</strong>e and shelters a part of Babiya Folla protected forest<br />
which is a potentially wild <strong>coffee</strong> space. Baabbuu is the closest town.<br />
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