Black Baza Coffee

Black Baza Coffee is a social and conservation enterprise based out of India. Our mission is to empower smallholder coffee producers to conserve biodiversity on coffee farms.

Coffee producers are encouraged and incentivised to adopt biodiversity-friendly farming practices that go way beyond conventional organic. Farming practices are grounded in ecological sciences and traditional ecological knowledge such that coffee farms are ecologically complex and comparable to surrounding forest. Coffee farms with diverse native tree species and vegetation alongside with coffee is the foundation for restoring biodiversity in what is otherwise considered to be one of the most intensified production systems in the world. Biodiversity-friendly practices restore and regenerate ecosystem services, wildlife species, soil health and build resilience towards changing climate.

Our coffees are an outcome of this movement for biodiversity-friendly coffee, a movement we pioneered and hope to scale across the subcontinent.  We recognise that to maintain ecological integrity across the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, our efforts cannot be limited to single-estates or plantations. In each of the regions we work, we do so in close partnership with individual producers, farmer producer organisations and collectives. Our grassroots work involves building capacity for specialty coffee, knowing full well that challenges for smallholder producers are immense. Our work, in collaboration with National Geographic Society, also involves a participatory ecological monitoring and citizen science project with many hundreds of producers across the Western Ghats. 

Our high altitude washed and natural Arabicas come from the Biligirirangan Hills and the Nilgiris. Our Robustas are sourced from South Kodagu and Wayanad, Kerala.

We are certified Fair Trade.