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About this lot
African specialty-grade Arabica, grown at the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro and roasted by default for filter methods. This coffee is cultivated on the southern and eastern slopes of Kilimanjaro by tens of thousands of smallholder farmers. Coffee-growing traditions in Tanzania date back to the 16th century, when the Haya people brought seedlings from Ethiopia—about 1,000 km away and the birthplace of coffee. However, cultivation in Tanzania remained limited until the 19th century, when German colonizers (the country was then a colony of the German Empire, known as Tanganyika or German East Africa) introduced more advanced farming practices in the fertile Kilimanjaro region. After independence in the second half of the 20th century, Tanzania’s economy was nationalized and agriculture was subjected to forced collectivization. Only the social and economic reforms of the late 20th century a