The Gourmet Coffee Project

Gourmet coffee is a high quality coffee, usually from a single estate or from a single area.  The combination of quality and the often limited availability - the "exclusivity" - usually commands a substantially higher price than for ordinary coffee.

Five coffee producing developing countries have participated in a three-year project for improvements of their coffees.  The project included selection of coffees, quality upgrading in the fields, better processing methods and new ways of selling the final project: Gourmet Coffee

The benefits to the five countries - Brazil, Burundi, Ethiopia, Papua New Guinea and Uganda - have been significant.  

The 300-page report  (available until end of 2002).  sc