Every year, Migoti Coffee (our partners in Burundi) watch as farmers sell their coffee to traders for unethically low prices. It happens from November to December, when finances are low, the new school year is starting, and families are struggling to provide. The traders use this desperation, offering farmers cash-in-hand, and though the rates are low, the upfront money is too convenient to pass up on.

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Microfinancing will enable local coffee producers to borrow in relatively small amounts, in order to buy things like household fixtures or farming tools, which will in turn allow them to spend their own money on food and clothes.