We are dedicated to improving our farmers’ livelihoods, creating sustainable market opportunities, and empowering women and youth. Our key focus is on creating opportunities for disadvantaged producers, including women.
In Gulmi, the poverty rate is 25%. This is 10% higher than the national average. We aim towards gender equity, equal pay and opportunities for our farming communities.
Girls in Gulmi are at high risk of not attending school, and the most marginalised and vulnerable people in Nepal are single women and female-headed households. Integrating gender equality through a social inclusion approach is critical for women and girls.
90% of all farmers in Nepal are women, mostly as smallholder farmers. Many still perform monotonous, repetitive, and labour-intensive activities, while also running households and rearing children. We work to train and empower our women farmers.
DCF Gulmi supports all our farmers through capacity building, skill development and creating trading opportunities. We ensure that producers receive fair prices for their products with pre-harvest or pre-production advance payments where possible.
Transparency, accountability and dealing openly with trading partners is important to us. We promote the Fairtrade ethos and tell customers where our products come from.
We aim to stop child labour in the Nepalese coffee industry. Over a million Nepalese children aged 5–17 are engaged child labour. We support our farming communities with sustainable incomes so children can go to school, not work.
District Cooperative Federation (DCF) Gulmi is a coffee cooperative that has worked in the district since 1993. We bring hope, support livelihoods, protect the environment and provide employment for our coffee farmers. We keep people nourished and uphold cultures.
We produce 100% Arabica under our brand, Gulmi Organic Coffee. Our varieties are Bourbon, Typica, Pacamara, and Caturra.
Over 90% our coffee farmers are in groups and cooperatives. We have 10 groups and 265 primary cooperatives. Of our 3,000 farmers, 55% are women and many are youth. Some remote area farmers are not in groups and cooperatives, but we also give them a subsidy.
Support small coffee producers in Gulmi to make organic coffee sustainable for the future
Increase the production and productivity of organic coffee via more plantations across Gulmi
Create more financial opportunities for disadvantaged producers, poor women and the marginalized by supporting their businesses and vision
Create more welfare programs in health, education, and income generation for farming children
Work towards developing a good relationship with partners, such as Nepali Bazaro Ltd. Japan.
