Impact & Transparency
Report 2023/24

At a Glance…

01: Transparency: What does it cost to produce coffee and how much do we pay farmers?
02: The Season in Numbers: Quick overview of the last harvest
03: Our Coffee's Journey: Unsure about what exactly we do?
04: Coffee Quality: Making our business sustainable in times of volatility
05: Purchasing Policy: Why is buying coffee so complicated?
06: Impact: Interested in our social projects and training activities?
07: Origin Trips: Want to visit us?

External Research

This year, Master's students at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) explored how TCG can strategically scale its financial services while minimising repayment risks. By examining tailored credit access, environmental sustainability, and social inclusion, the research project recommended an integrated, segmented approach to cultivating triple bottom line impact.

In 2023, LSE students developed a new monitoring and evaluation framework for us to measure our impact on the lives of our farmers. This framework has enabled us, for the first time, to provide farmers with scorecards so they can assess their performance and set their own goals.

Capital Coalitions conducted a “Natural Capital” Impact Analysis to assess and quantify our environmental impact on society (Dec 2022).

"The Coffee Gardens is already demonstrating how, with the right investments, growth and sustainability can be decoupled. Increased processing and profitability does not have to equate to an increased cost to the environment and society. TCG is leading the sector into new opportunity for greener market premiums."

Café Africa mentions us in their Review and Analysis of policies, strategies, attitudes, practices and institutions for strengthening coffee agroforestry in Uganda as one of the case studies including organisations that promote coffee agroforestry among smallholder farmers.

“In 2018, the company set up micro-coffee processing station in the Bukyabo valley in Sironko district, with strict processing practices using state of the art equipment and mobile tools to track each batch of coffee from the gardens to the store. Working with over 500 farming households, the company offers above market prices, undertakes trainings and access to finance, as a motivation to farmers for higher cup scores, creating an incentive to improve coffee growing practices.”