ACB implements business leveraging it’s MOT-Model innovation built on a primary pillar of revolutionizing the 150 – 400 coffee tree plot-farm model structural economy. The 150-400 coffee tree plot-farm model is the most predominant agricultural stakeholder economic activity regardless of the choice of value chain, in Africa, and perhaps elsewhere. For Africa, the scheme is extensively land fragmentation proliferated mainly through customary land ownership influences, ever increasing population pressure, and sporadic government interferences. Land fragmentation is now regular in African, and we have got to deal with it, entrepreneurial re-orientation, and enfranchisement of the 150 – 400 coffee tree plot-farm model structural economy, inclusive.

Due to the model configuration and subsistence nature implications, it bears on the livelihoods of the micro-growers in-terms of primary source of food, medical care, and child education, the 150 – 400 coffee tree plot-farm economic structure in AFRICA cannot be underestimated.

The MOT-Model design is seldom, and very likely the first ever entrepreneurial covenant between AFRICA and the United States to drum-up the highly silently masked resumptive economic significant retail, and too neglected 150 coffee tree stem count smallholder harvest undertaking, urgently due for sole reputational niche market mapping needs and other related sustainability entrenching aspects, science innovations and technologies inclusive.

The 150 – 400 coffee tree plot-farm model smallholder economy is the most disempowered, disenfranchised and disproportionately impacted in terms of commodity trade and markets (exploitative coffee dealings), inadequate agricultural practice and farm in-puts (fertilizers, science innovations and technologies, foundation seed inclusive) dissemination to consumer farmer-grassroots, the ruin of climate change, land fragmentation (government land grabbing, population pressure and traditional rituals- customary related interferences), inadequate coffee policies and lack of leadership.
Therefore, the MOT model is here, highly innovated, inclusive and hypothesized to fundamentally help coffee micro-growers especially, the 150 – 400 coffee tree plot-farm model configuration to access more enfranchising and incentivizing requirement in-puts for value chain sustainability, green bean micro-lots niche market mapping and traceability in the United States retail inclusive; to ensure elevation of household incomes and rural livelihoods improvement among smallholder farming families. The model design is strategic and inclusive to fully allow for policy implementation and governance in achieving the shared vision of “Profitable niche markets responsive to specific African coffees in the North American retail chain structure”.

The MOT Model integrates the niche sustainability component one of it’s 4 development element anchors, that aspires to hasten core inter-institutional collaborative scientific research systems that governs novel science generation output much needed to solve critical farm production constraints, and efficient decentralization of technologies to consumer farmer-grassroots for sustainable household incomes and livelihoods improvement in AFRICA. The niche sustainability development element is exploiting the CoFET-Retreat (ACB science exchange subsidiary) infrastructure, in nurturing a joint collaborative research agenda between AFRICA and Hawai’i, USA with expected outcomes due for sustainable grower-household incomes and livelihoods improvement in AFRICA and Hawai’i.

a) Social security reserve: Majority of the 150 – 400 coffee tree plot-farm model stakeholders are women and depend on this micro-enterprise for their social security. The implication is, they harvest this coffee, store it and only sell to obtain food, medical care and child education (https://africacoffeebureau.us/founder/ ). But, they often lack reliable and incentive rewarding markets, and available options pay only US$70 cents per pound of green bean which translates into $60 for roaster’s whole bean on shelves of major retail stores such as Walmart and Costco or, $240 from serving espressos and cappuccinos in retail structures such as Starbucks in industrial consumer nations, United States inclusive. The 150 – 400 coffee tree plot-farm economic structure cannot be neglected, they require services which elevate the sale value to the proportionality worthiness of their coffees; and, this can remarkably make a difference, can contribute to their livelihoods improvement.
While speaking at the presentation of the FAO report “The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems” April 2023; , the USAID administrator Samantha Power made a case “There are hundreds of millions of women who are ready, willing, and able to help us end hunger if only we dismantle the barriers standing in the way” ( https://twitter.com/LM_Phillips/status/1648290701497466880?t=05Iv7m_DYtCaPrS5tU 5s5A&s=19%20%20%20 ). Similar efforts at WTO working for betterment of women, those in the 150 – 400 coffee tree plot-farm micro-economic enterprise, inclusive. While speaking at the World Trade Congress on Gender: Building Recovery Through Inclusive Trade; December 2022, WTO Director General reported quoting the World Bank “2.4 billion working age women do not have equal opportunities compared to men” ( https://twitter.com/wto/status/1601564267110612992 cxt=HHwWgICyoeWN87ksAAAA ). The MOT-Model is a safety net and fundamentally built to help women secure more opportunities in micro-lot coffee trade as good as their male counterparts.
The model seeks to secure sustainability of the 150 – 400 coffee tree plot-farm value chain which is predominantly women led through lucrative incentivizing novel niche markets that shall guarantee rural livelihoods improvement in AFRICA.

b) Favourable trade negotiations and novel niche markets traceability: The purpose of ACB entrepreneurship bureau is to spur cup quality profiling vigor of 150 – 400 coffee tree plot-farm coffee collections in the United States retail structure especially, the roasting segment which rallies US$48Bn (SCA report 2018: US Coffee Market Overview) to trace and create generous incentive rewarding novel niche markets that respond to their specific African coffees. Negotiate for at least US$2.0/lb. of green up from US$70 cents per pound, regardless of the commercial grade (Robustas or Arabicas), while increasing the African coffee volume share on the United States market.

c) Climate change adaptation: Africa is the most vulnerable and disproportionately affected global community and paying the ultimate price for the climate crisis it never caused. In a personal communication at COP27 climate summit held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 2022; the African Development Bank (AfDB) president downcast “Africa today loses between US$7.0Bn and US$15Bn a year to climate change and if things don’t change, it will be US$50Bn a year by 2030” ( https://twitter.com/UNGeneva/status/1583820971865169921?t=9koVNZgmusHxwkiMA aQo7g&s=19 ); COP27 is Africa’s COP. It must address Africa’s Climate challenges.” During the United States virtual Leaders’ Summit on Climate, April 2021; AfDB president, reiterated the same “The continent loses $7 billion to $15 billion a year to climate change, and this will rise to $50 billion per year by 2040, according to the IMF. Africa is not at net zero. Africa is at ground zero. We must therefore give Africa a lift to get a chance of adapting to what it did not cause” ( https://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/press-releases/leaders-summit-climate-african-development-bank-president-says-continent-ground-zero-crisis-major-economies-boost-climate-targets-43272 ). Africa hosts the world’s largest green lungs or the gigantic atmospheric vacuum cleans in form of untouched natural tropical forests especially in the Congo Basin, the 150 – 400 coffee tree plot-farm model configuration inclusive. These are estimated to 1,605 billion acres of untouched forest seizing 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, about half of carbon emission from homes in the US ( https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/dec/04/africa-global-warming-paris-climate-talks ). Africa seeks to evaluate it natural capital for cash to inject more in climate adaptation. Africa needs about US$1.3 trillion – US$1.6 trillion between 2020-2030 to implement the continent’s climate action commitment. It received an average of US$73Bn in climate finance for 2016 -2019, leaving a whopping climate financing gap of US$99.9Bn to US$127Bn per year through 2030 ( https://www.dfa.ie/media/dfa/aief/2022/Dr-Akinwumi-Adesina—Speech-at-the-7th-Africa-Ireland-Economic-Forum-Final.pdf .). With gaps in funding, we do not need to risk even that last drop of water. Farmers including the 150 – 400 coffee tree plot-farm model stakeholders, are desperate, some abandoning or even cutting down coffee shambas. This threatens sustainability in terms of the contribution to carbon sequestration a service coming from coffee agro-forestry, and ultimately the commodity supply chain to roasters. Creation of novel, reliable and incentivizing niche markets, not only guarantees social security to smallholders but, will propagate sustained conservation of the 150 –400 coffee tree plot-farm model for enhanced decarbonization to avert the climate change ruin.

d) Technology transfer: In the 1980s, a concept of Farmer Field School (FFS) was first developed in Asia as a platform for farmers to strengthen their knowledge and field management decision skills through a process of hands-on field-based learning (Marjon Fredrix, 2014. Farmer Field Schools and Farmer Empowerment. Int. J. Agr. Ext. Vol. 2[1]. 67-73). The FFS is suggested as an enhancement of group collaboration and exchange of experience, building on local knowledge systems as well as on knowledge generated outside rural communities (Marjon Fredrix, 2014. Farmer Field Schools and Farmer Empowerment. Int. J. Agr. Ext. Vol. 2[1]. 67-73). CoFET-Retreat (Oahu Island) Hawai’i, USA; is a restoration of FFS. In the context of CoFET (Coffee Farm Experience Tour), the activity is essential for African stakeholders to learn from their peers in Hawai’i, thus, the founding of CoFET-Retreat (Oahu Island) Hawai’i, USA a subsidiary of ACB (Parent company), is to undertake knowledge and skills learning right on-farm. The process will hasten core inter-institutional collaborative scientific research systems novel science generation output that solves critical farm production constraints, and efficiently decentralize technologies to consumer farmer-grassroots for sustainable household incomes and livelihoods improvement in AFRICA and Hawai’i.

e) Cooperation and joint research collaborative agenda (JCRA) between Hawai’i – AFRICA: To hasten core inter-institutional collaborative scientific research systems, University of Hawai’i inclusive, for novel science generation output that solves critical farm production constraints, and efficiently decentralize technologies to consumer farmer-grassroots for sustainable household incomes and livelihoods improvement in AFRICA and Hawai’i. In his podcast, Prof. Chris Field, Director of the Woods Institute at Stanford, spoke to the need for universities to restructure in ways that would contribute to managing climate crises, “for sustainability, we gonna need whole different range of kinds of ventures, solutions in future, again require universities to think, and act very differently”( https://twitter.com/stanforddoerr/status/1582835660724916224?t=IviDV92_AYSHcWi_LvCSSQ&s=19 ).