GPS-measurements of the farms

Before Christmas we went to all the farms in Aranga Coffee Group to take GPS-measurements and visit the farmers. To get an organic certification we need a map of all the farms in the Aranga Coffee Group and their office. All maps will include GPS data, the farmers house, the coffee farm, other farm areas and the neighbours of the farmers. With maps the certification organization will know what is next to the organic coffee, and see the border between organic and non-organic coffee (if the farmer also has some non-organic coffee). With the GPS-measurements we will make a map of the whole village to see the location of the farms together.

Many of the farmers have already done a very good job making maps of their land and in January everything will be ready.

FK 2014

Wild Tracks has started an exchange program with the Norwegian Peace Corps (FK – Fredskorpset) and Friends Fair Trade in Norway. Every year Wild Tracks is sending two workers to Norway to work in Friends Fair Trade’s shop in Oslo, where they also sell our coffee. Friends Fair Trade is sending two workers to Wild Tracks in Tanzania. Here they are learning more about organic and fair trade farming, coffee and the Tanzanian culture and working environment. The workers from Tanzania in Oslo are learning more about Norwegian consumers, Fair Trade and are promoting Wild Tracks’ coffee.