I’ll take my coffee green, no cream, no sugar

Ethiopia, the single largest African coffee producer and the world’s fifth largest, is commonly considered to be the birthplace of coffee. It’s hardly a surprise that when you survey the landscape of Ethiopia’s Oromia region, an area the size of Italy, it is bespeckled with native Coffea arabica farms.
In Ethiopia, . So it was quite fitting to focus on the country’s smallholder coffee farmers in Oromia for a project to help promote climate-smart “green” practices.
This week, the World Bank Group’s BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL) announced it was taking part in a project together with the Bank Group’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), along with the international coffee company, Nespresso and the non-profit, TechnoServe.
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- Oromia
- ISFL
- BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscape
- TechnoServe
- Nespresso
- International Finance Corporation
- ifc
- Climate Smart Agriculture
- sustainable forest management
- forest
- Landscapes
- coffee
- Climate Change
- Private Sector Development
- Environment
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Africa
- Kenya
- Ethiopia