T H E P R O B L E M
The world's most popular drink has a broken supply chain.
Especially for Robusta.
Robusta is not an inferior coffee. It is a different coffee, one that supplies roughly 40% of everything in the global cup. The crema in your espresso, the body in your blend, the caffeine yield your customers rely on: Robusta provides all of it.
The major brands never touch coffee trees.They buy pre-processed beans, squeezing producers for price, lack control over farming, processing, storage, or documentation, and very little money back to the communities who harvest coffee
N O T R A C E A B I L I T Y
Origin declared as country not community. No chain of custody. Buyers cannot verify what they are purchasing.
INCONSISTENT QUALITY
Specification varies between lots, seasons and suppliers. Buyers cannot build a blend around a coffee they cannot rely on.
EUDR EXPOSURE
Almost no Ugandan supply chain was designed for compliance. Non-compliant shipments are refused EU entry.
Each of these problems is solvable. Canephora was built
to solve them.
T H E O R I G I N
Uganda
is where Robusta began.
We built the infrastructure it deserves
The Coffea canephora species was not cultivated and
transported to Uganda. It originated here. In the wild forests of western
Uganda specifically Kibaale Forest, lives the living genetic stock of the plant
that supplies roughly 40% of the world's coffee.
Uganda is Africa's largest coffee exporter and the
world's sixth largest producer a position built not on Arabica, but
overwhelmingly on Robusta, accounting for over 80% of total output.
COUNTRY Uganda, East Africa
REGION Rwenzori · Kibaale Forest Zone · Western Uganda
ALTITUDE 1,200 – 1,600 metres above sea level
GENETICS Wild-origin Coffea canephora (Kibaale Forest
lineage)
CLIMATE Equatorial highland · volcanic soil · defined dry seasons
HARVEST Nov – Feb (primary) · Apr – Jun (fly crop)
PROCESS Washed & Natural · moisture-controlled
solar drying
