"Kahawa 1893 sources beans directly from collectives and family farms in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Congo. It also supports female coffee farmers through a bitcoin-powered tip fund."
"I thought, what if we could have consumers pitch into this virtual pot and then farmers can have money to go around?"
"Kenyan women, who historically are denied land ownership and therefore the ability to take out loans, provide 90% of labor on coffee farms but own just 1% of the land."
"Last year, the startup brought in $3m in revenue, two-thirds of which came from its sales at Trader Joe's."
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