A woman makes coffee outdoors in South Sudan. A new partnership aims to build on the progress of revitalizing the country’s fledgeling coffee industry. Photo by: Amy the Nurse / CC BY-NC-ND
Originally published on Devex Impact
The world’s newest country has a new export industry — and donor funding to help scale it.
The U.S. Agency for International Development will invest $3.18 million in South Sudan over the next three years to train smallholder farmers to boost production in the war-torn nation’s nascent coffee sector. The funding is part of a public-private partnership with Swiss coffee maker Nespresso and international development non-profit TechnoServe.
In October Nespresso shipped its first volumes of coffee production from South Sudan, marking the first non-oil exports to come out of the country in over a generation.
