Permata Gayo Sumatra
Formed in 2006 by fifty farmers across five villages in Bener Meriah, the Permata Gayo cooperative revived abandoned plots on the Gayo Plateau, earning organic certification in 2007 and Fairtrade status in 2009.
Our People
Four Cooperatives. One Word.
Narsis does not buy from brokers. We buy from the people who have farmed these slopes for generations, and we pay them for exactly what they grow.
Formed in 2006 by fifty farmers across five villages in Bener Meriah, the Permata Gayo cooperative revived abandoned plots on the Gayo Plateau, earning organic certification in 2007 and Fairtrade status in 2009.
West Java's highlands have grown coffee since Dutch plantations first took root here in the 1700s, among the oldest coffee ground on Earth. Today the same hillside families still tend it, tree by tree.
In the Sulawesi highlands, families farming under three acres each have banded into small cooperative micro-mills, pooling the wet-hulling craft so no single farm has to carry it alone.
A UNESCO-recognized system of collective land governance, Subak Abian coordinates Kintamani's tumpangsari farms, coffee grown in the shade of tangerine and orange trees, shared by ritual and season.
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