Uganda does not need to convince Italy to buy its coffee. Italy is already one of its largest export markets. The bigger opportunity is to turn that established trade into businesses that create more value locally, from processing and roasting…
Uganda’s oil has spent nearly two decades underground, in boardrooms, financing negotiations and political speeches. On Wednesday, it finally got a name. President Yoweri Museveni unveiled Pearl Sweet, the commercial identity under which crude from Uganda’s Lake Albert fields will…
Uganda has spent years asking how farmers can produce more. The more important question now is whether they can capture more of the value created by what they produce. A coffee farmer may sell beans that are eventually processed, packaged…
For years, agricultural waste has been treated as the unwanted side of farming: coffee husks left around processing plants, maize cobs discarded after harvest, animal manure accumulating on farms and crop residues burned or left to decompose. But across Africa,…
For generations, agriculture in Uganda has been presented primarily as a production question. We have asked how to increase yields, get more young people into farming, improve access to inputs and put more land under commercial production. The assumption has…