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WELCOME TO KENYA CO-OPERATIVE COFFEE EXPORTERS LTD (KCCE)

Kenya Co-operative Coffee Exporters (KCCE) is a coffee exporting organization established by the Co-operative movement in Kenya to create linkages between the Smallholder Kenyan Coffee producers and the world Market through a consistent, shorter and transparent supply chain. In year 2009, small scale coffee farmers put their synergies together through their Co-operative Societies and established the KCCE to explore end-to-end farming, processing and marketing of their produce and to maximize on their returns.

Smallholder coffee farmers in Kenya have for a long time wanted to market their coffee directly to buyers overseas, and to create a business relationship with their buyers, but lacked the necessary linkages to do so. Most of their coffee has been handled by intermediaries or traders (mostly global multinational companies) a situation that lengthens the value chain and erodes value for farmers. This has now been addressed with the formation of KCCE as the farmers’ vehicle to the international market through the direct sales approach also referred to as the “second window” introduced in Kenya in 2005. The second window operates alongside Kenya’s traditional coffee auction system