Rwanda's Bourbon Coffee brings new hope.

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, April, 2003 by Butler, Reg

Launched in January by Community Coffee Co. of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and two weeks later in Britain, the Cafe Maraba Bourbon coffee, farmed by survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, is bringing new hope to the region. Backed by Fairtrade, this specialty coffee is earning smallholders two or three times the price of commercial-grade Arabicas.

This first crop of coffee from the Abahuzamugambi Co-operative -- a group of Rwandan subsistence farmers in the country's Maraba district near Butare in southern Rwanda -- has been developed with the technical help of international aid ...