{"title":"South Sudan","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"equatoria-excelsa-anaerobic","title":"Equatoria Coffee Excelsa Anaerobic","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eEquatoria Coffee grows this lot on their farm in Nzara County, Western Equatoria State, in a part of South Sudan where coffee production goes back decades but was almost wiped out by the Second Sudanese Civil War in the 1980s. The company began replanting in 2018, building coffee into a faster-maturing companion to its longer-term teak business, and now works with 1,500 local farmers across the region to bring South Sudanese coffee back to international markets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis lot is processed as an anaerobic natural: whole cherries fermented in sealed tanks for 48–64 hours before being pulped and dried. It's a departure from the natural processing more commonly used across South Sudan, where cherries are typically dried whole and, on a smaller scale, pounded by hand in a wooden bowl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe coffee itself is Excelsa, a distinct species in its own right, hardy and disease-resistant, and indigenous to South Sudan — a fact confirmed through genetic testing by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which also found high genetic diversity in the variety, pointing to strong potential for further selection and improvement. Equatoria Coffee selected Excelsa specifically for its resilience to the region's unpredictable rainfall and its resistance to common coffee diseases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Omwani","offers":[{"title":"0.5kg","offer_id":55599252242808,"sku":"EQUATORIA-EXCELSA-HALF","price":11.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"1kg","offer_id":55599252275576,"sku":"EQUATORIA-EXCELSA-1","price":17.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"5kg","offer_id":55599252308344,"sku":"EQUATORIA-EXCELSA-5","price":75.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/3006\/7755\/files\/0-1_3c7fa748-39d5-4d3c-a12c-fb57fd9131fc.jpg?v=1783520727"},{"product_id":"equatoria-coffee-natural-robusta","title":"Equatoria Coffee Natural Robusta","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eEquatoria Coffee grows this Robusta in Nzara County, Western Equatoria State, a part of South Sudan roughly the size of Scotland where only a fraction of the land is under cultivation. Coffee has grown here for decades, but war and geography kept it almost entirely cut off from international markets — the nearest port is close to 3,000km away, across three borders, and much of the region has no road network beyond tracks passable by bicycle or motorbike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe lot is naturally processed, in keeping with traditional South Sudanese methods where cherries are typically dried whole and. Equatoria Coffee sources from its own 87-hectare model farm alongside a network of 1,500 partner farmers, most working smallholdings of just one or two hectares, growing coffee alongside food crops to bring in income during the lean season. The model farm doubles as a testing ground, trialling processing methods, plant spacing, and varieties before anything is rolled out more widely, with its own wet and dry mills used to train farmers from the surrounding area.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Omwani","offers":[{"title":"0.5kg","offer_id":55599366504824,"sku":"EQUATORIA-ROBUSTA-HALF","price":11.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"1kg","offer_id":55599366537592,"sku":"EQUATORIA-ROBUSTA-1","price":17.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"5kg","offer_id":55599366570360,"sku":"EQUATORIA-ROBUSTA-5","price":75.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/3006\/7755\/files\/0-2_98bdb605-151e-4b8c-a94c-a48b6575d243.jpg?v=1783525625"}],"url":"https:\/\/greencoffeecollective.com\/en-ie\/collections\/south-sudan.oembed","provider":"Green Coffee Collective","version":"1.0","type":"link"}