Uganda’s coffee businesses are navigating a difficult operating environment. Coffee prices remain volatile, fuel costs are significantly higher than a year ago and the shilling has weakened sharply against the US dollar. For farmers, traders, transporters, processors and exporters, the…
Uganda is exporting coffee at record levels. But with more than 95% of production still leaving the country as green beans, the next agribusiness opportunity may lie not in growing more coffee, but in capturing more value from what Uganda…
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,…