UCDA says Uganda will be required to collect detailed information, especially on production and locations to determine the level of risk that exported coffee presents to the environment
By Virginia Van Zandt On a red-soiled coffee plantation some 170 miles northeast of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala, a young woman sorts coffee beans headed for a Trader Joe’s in Milwaukee. Endiro Coffee, a collective coffee firm made up of 518 Ugandan women in the mountainous Mbale region of eastern Uganda, just struck a
Concerns abound that African producers of coffee beans don’t earn their fair share in the global value chain, sparking sustained agitation for processing capacity to be established
With climate models predicting a dramatic drop in the availability of coffee as temperatures rise, farmers are preparing themselves for an uncertain future.