Rwanda's High-end Hopes for Coffee
November 02, 2008
Small businesses are turning coffee from a low-priced commodity into a high-priced specialty crop.
You can see coffee growing everywhere on the slopes of Rwanda's beautiful rolling hills. Coffee is Rwanda's number one export crop. The country's current focus is to turn coffee grown there from a low-priced commodity crop into a higher-priced specialty crop -- coffee that you would buy at Starbucks, and other high-end coffee purveyors.
Click the link below to view a short video, Kaningu describes what these small enterprises are doing to help regenerate Rwanda's economy and its image abroad.
