farmers more than tripled their selling price in a few years. They credited the jump, at least in part, to Kabum's willingness to stand in the gap and advocate for farmers. A number of U.S. buyers have visited Janet's farm since 2009, and she is working to achieve a micro-lot relationship with an individual buyer. Some technologies and strategies being implemented in
Kapchorwa aim to foster and strengthen such buyer-grower rela- tionships. All Kabum farmers are profiled using GPS coordinates, and an app is available for buyers to access farmer details in an instant. The app uses a cloud-housed database that lets buyers
access an individual farmer's information by name, elevation, yield or cupping score. Janet's coffee, for instance, is regularly cupped and scored at
a lab in Kapchorwa Town that Kabum and the Uganda Coffee Development Authority established last year. Kabum's staff inputs the data as soon as the results are available, and those facts are immediately available to buyers. The Kabum location also acts as a storehouse where parchment is separated by growing region and also by farmer. The quantity and payment of each farmer's coffee is recorded upon delivery. When farmers like Janet deliver
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