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Fair Trade Proof page
TRACE YOUR BEANS FROM FARMER TO ROASTER. We practice Fair Trade as a long-term partnership between farmers and roasters, including pre-financing, sharing information and working together for higher quality coffee. Without proof, anyone can say anything. This site is part of our effort to provide total transparency in our process.
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Fair Trade Proof is maintained
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Indonesia- KBQB
FLO ID# 5416
Partner Since 2008
Total Beans Purchased: 435,866 lbs.
Organic Cert Link

The KBQB cooperative has 8,000 members in villages throughout Bener Meriah and Aceh Tengah around Lake Tawar. These members are organized at the village level into 123 groups, who sell to approximately 100 elected collectors. About 90% of the collectors are also farmers. The coop is structured so that each group of farmers elects a representative for the annual meeting; these representatives are not necessarily the same person as the collector. The chair of the coop is Rizwan Husin. He is a chartered accountant by training, though he also has his own 5ha coffee plot, and is currently serving his second two year term as chair of the coop. The coop shares an office with NCBA in Takengon.

The KBQB community focuses on many projects and developments, including the following:
* The cooperative has a micro-finance bank that coop members can join.
* A land rehabilitation project focuses on bringing land abandoned during the conflict back into production. The goal is to distribute 6,000 coffee seedlings over three years, a program which is currently in its second year and has approximately 2,000 applicants waiting to join. The farmers have 6 years to repay—a three year grace period while the plant is maturing wherein no interest accrues, and then three years to pay it off. The criteria for participating are: to own of land abandoned due to the conflict, to be willing to grow organic, and to not have membership in another organization.
* Farmers can also get loans to purchase weed-wackers—a popular way to weed here. So far, 300 weed-wackers have been sold.
* Farmers can also deposit money in the coop bank. They can withdraw it after 6 months and earn a small percent interest.
* The collectors also have access to loans at 9%/year for development of the infrastructure that they need— coffee pulping facilities, etc.


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