Nespresso and social impact start-up, OpenSC, have revealed a technology-based collaboration that brings new levels of transparency to the Nespresso Reviving Origins organic coffee, KAHAWA ya CONGO.

Through the partnership with Nespresso, OpenSC’s technology is being used to trace every bag of coffee digitally and securely from the 1,185 smallholder farms of the AMKA Cooperative in South Kivu, all the way to the consumer. The AMKA Cooperative was selected to take part in the program from among multiple cooperatives in DRC that Nespresso sources from.

The OpenSC platform automatically verifies that each farmer receives the correct Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program premium directly for exactly the coffee they produced - either via mobile money or cash.