Food & FarmingNGO
Building Farmer Cooperatives on Burundi's Coffee Hills
by ADISCO (Appui au Développement Intégral et à la Solidarité sur les Collines) · HQ 🇧🇮 Burundi
0cooperativesMulti-sector farmer cooperatives supportedas of 2025-01-01 · may be outdated
0householdsCoffee-farming households covered by ADISCO-backed health mutualsas of 2025-01-01 · may be outdated
0peoplePeople benefiting from ADISCO's self-help (IGG) solidarity groupsas of 2014-12-31 · may be outdated
Founded in 2006 by Burundian diaspora leaders, ADISCO works across the Kirimiro, Buyenzi, Bugesera and Mumirwa hill regions to help smallholder farmers move from subsistence plots to viable, self-managed businesses and cooperatives. It currently accompanies 33 multi-sector farmer cooperatives, including 7 coffee cooperatives with their own washing stations linked to Burundi's coffee export consortium. Through its PROMUSCABU program, running since 2008, ADISCO has also built a network of 34 community health mutuals that give more than 7,000 coffee-farming households access to affordable healthcare.