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This is a smallholder-grown, centrally processed natural from western Guji zone. The Hambela district is well-known for excellent coffees and this lot, from coffee growers in the Deri community, is no exception. The exporter of this coffee, Ephtah, is a very new women-founded and led specialty group that brings years of former industry experience to a new venture.
Welcome to Guji Zone
Ethiopia’s Guji zone is a distant and heavily forested swath of land stretching southeast through the lower corner of the massive Oromia region. Guji is heavy with primary forest thanks to the Guji tribe, a part of Ethiopia’s vast and diverse Oromo nation, who have for generations organized and legislated to reduce mining and logging outfits in their area, in a struggle to conserve the land’s sacred canopy. Compared to other coffee-heavy regions, large parts of Guji feel like prehistoric backwoods. Coffee farms in many parts of Guji begin at 2000 meters in elevation and tend to climb from there. The highland farming communities in this part of the country can be at turns Edenic in their natural purity, and startlingly remote.
Processing
Tadele Dori is the owner of the processing site in Deri. The site occupies 2.8 hectares of land and employs over 150 individuals during harvest time to manage all the site’s processing and financial operations. Cherry is inspected for ripeness and uniformity upon delivery to the station, and then moved immediately to one of the station’s 200 raised drying beds, where it takes typically 13-16 days to fully dry.
Ephtah Specialty Coffee
Tadele Dori works exclusively with Ephtah Specialty Coffee, a newly-founded exporter managed by Wubit Bekele and a small team of other ambitious and talented women with many years of coffee industry experience between them. Wubit was raised in Nekempte, a well-known coffee area, and after working many years for a large exporter as a university graduate, decided to start her own company. Ephtah has relationship-based sourcing now in West Arsi, Sidama, Gedeo, and Guji zones, ranging from central processors to single farmers with only a few hectares of land.
Ephtah’s sustainability is focused on interpersonal strength and includes the following pillars: women inclusion and empowerment; community engagement; and boosting production and improving quality. Women, especially, are recognized by Ephtah as the “underappreciated pillar” of Ethiopia’s coffee industry, who deserve to be competitive in the industry, profitable, and who should be thriving in a way that inspires young women to start their own businesses.
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