Province on Lake Kivu that includes Idjwi island, where local Bourbon strains are washed at cooperative micro-washing stations.
South Kivu includes Idjwi, an island in Lake Kivu that is described as the second-largest lake island in Africa. Cooperative micro-washing stations, each serving about 100 members, operate across the Kivu provinces. Idjwi's coffee comes from local Bourbon strains that Belgian colonists recognised in the 1940s.
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Idjwi, in Lake Kivu, is about 70 km long and had roughly 250,000 residents in 2009.
Within South Kivu
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Elsewhere in Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- Idjwi · Wikipedia
- The Revival of Arabica Coffee in Eastern DRC · Rikolto
- On an Island in the DRC's Lake Kivu, Coffee Begins to Bear Economic Fruit · Daily Coffee News