MAANDA – Gender Justice for Coffee Co-ops in East Africa
Although women provide up to 70% of the labour in East African coffee production, their work often goes unrecognised and unfairly rewarded. East African cooperatives also struggle …
How We Work With You
Twin’s projects form an integral part of our Theory of Change approach to building robust producer organisations. Twin seeks to connect actors across the supply chain, working with funding from institutions as well as engaging buyers in investing to strengthen their supply chains and build strong relationships based on shared understanding of quality and the markets with producers.
When designing projects, we take an holistic approach, considering all six of our pillars of development as well as monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL): Our Approach
Current Projects
Trademark East Africa – Strengthening Good Practices
Trade and Markets East Africa (TMEA) works on supporting the growth of trade in the region, focusing on ensuring trade results in tangible gains for east Africans. TMEA has chosen…
Supporting Coffee Business in Tanzania
Farmer organisations in Tanzania face a series of interrelated challenges, from climate change to lack of investment. Young people particularly are discouraged from cultivating c…
Joint Marketing Initiative for Speciality Coffee
In recent years, the coffee market has seen a dramatic shift towards speciality coffee, with growing interest from consumers in coffee origin, traceability and ethical labels. This…
Focusing on Coffee Grown by Women in DRC
In Eastern DRC women are mainly responsible for agricultural labour in coffee fields. They not only deliver most of the work, but are also widely responsible for key tasks related…
Pret A Manger coffee education project in Peru
An intergenerational skills gap is emerging in Latin America’s coffee sector due to underinvestment in training and education for the next generation of farmers. Talented young peo…
Climate Resilient Value Chain from Peru
In 2015, following a 2 year successful climate change adaptation pilot project in San Juan del Oro funded by Matthew Algie and M&S (Plan A) on improved water management and water c…
Providing Quality Support with Mozzo Coffee
The collaboration between Twin and Mozzo Coffee is motivated by the same aspiration to practically and productively support coffee farming communities, more precisely in the Democ…
Eat Fair project with Peros and Compass
Improved Livelihoods for Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Gumutindo, Eastern Uganda Gumutindo farmers produce Arabica coffee on steep slopes, with agricultural practices that put str…
Divine Chocolate Cocoa Partnership
Following the liberalisation of Ghana’s cocoa market in the 1990s, Twin worked with a group of visionary farmers to help set up the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative. After just four years, …
Liberation Foods nut value chain partnership
In 2003, Twin brought together a global network of nut producers to increase smallholder market access by developing the first ever Fairtrade standards for nuts. Fairtrade helped t…
Matthew Algie & Sainsbury’s sustainability partnership
Mount Elgon is one of Uganda’s most important coffee growing regions, producing some of the country’s finest Arabica coffee. Due to climate change associated temperature increases …
Market access and food safety in Malawi nut chains
In the 1960s, sub-Saharan Africa was responsible for 90% of global peanut exports (referred to as groundnuts in Africa). Today, this figure has fallen to less than 5%, largely due …
Managing cocoa market risk in West Africa
Following the recent withdrawal from price stabilisation programmes in West African countries, cocoa farmers have become increasingly exposed to the risks associated with volatile…
Quality washed coffee in Uganda with Rabobank
Arabica coffee farmers in western Uganda lose an estimated US $16 million a year because their high-grown coffee is not washed, and miss out on a further US $16 million a year as …
Improved Climate Resilience of Small Producer Coffee Organisation
The project aims at strengthening the extension service and lead farmers adaptive capacity in Bukonzo Joint Cooperative in Uganda. Climate resilience involves taking decisions bas…
