Ensures fair living wage for producers
Discloses the community being impacted
Reduces the environmental impact
Focusses on women producers
Created using handcrafted methods
Reduces/Reuses/
Recycles resources
Recycles resources
Made out of responsible materials
Avoids use of chemicals or toxic materials
Biodegradable or environment friendly
Uses portion of proceeds to give back to the community
Black Baza Coffee Co. is an interdisciplinary specialty coffee roastery. They facilitate meaningful and empowered market experiences for smallholder coffee growers. The grassroots work builds on traditional ecological knowledge and strengthens farming practices that conserve biodiversity and local ecosystems.
Purpose
Black Baza’s purpose is to enable smallholder coffee producers to enjoy secure and stable livelihoods and strengthen coffee farming practices that conserve biodiversity. Coffee drinkers are invited to participate in the process.Their philosophy imbibes the spirit of interconnectedness and engages coffee drinkers to explore empathetic and engaged relationships between producer and consumer and ultimately, a fuller notion of flavour.
People
Black Baza currently works with over 650 smallholder coffee growers across the Western Ghats, majority of whom are from indigenous are other marginalised communities. Through partnerships with Black Baza Coffee, coffee growers are guaranteed a long-term buyback at above market prices, access to safe and transparent finance and engage in capacity building programmes for integrative farm management.
Planet
As a bean to cup enterprise, Black Baza is able to evaluate its planetary footprint to considerable detail.The core philosophy at Black Baza is that biodiversity-friendly farming produces a more flavourful cup. Partner producers follow regenerative farming practices that go well beyond conventional organic and in fact conserve local ecosystems. Coffee is grown under the shade of native tree species with ongoing participatory monitoring of ecological indicator species, such as bees, earthworms and select bird and mammal species.
