In the remote Busia district, in eastern Uganda, more than 600 farmers try to complement their scarce incomes with gold exploitation. However, on top of the environmental costs caused by open mining, workers struggle to make ends meet due to the untrustworthy middlemen they have to deal with. Eventually, the gold ends up with a distant buyer who can […]
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Formerly known as Nsangi Coffee Farmers Association (NCFA), CECOFA was founded in 2005 by a small group of entrepreneurial farmers and is now made up of 3,200 employees (of which 750 are women) within the districts of central Uganda. CECOFA AND THE NEXT GENERATION However, although the number of employees rose, ageing of the farming population is an […]
Located in Kampala, Easy Afric Designs Ltd. (EAD) was created in 2001 by Sarah Nakisanze, an industrial artist and teacher. With her passion for artistic creation, she sought to build an artisanal network and translate creations into industrials products for all. This led her research on the rejuvenation of the Ugandan barkcloth – a world […]
Vietnam Rural Industries Research and Development Institute (VIRI) was created in 1997 as a leading non-governmental organisation established by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam to support the sustainable development of rural industries in Vietnam. Since 2009, it has been WFTO certified. The organisation aims to localise fair trade through a network of local buyers to create […]
Founded as a farmer-based community cooperative in 2012 and implemented in Bukoto village, Masaka district, Kabonera Sub County by Ugacof Limited and Agro Eco-Louis Bolk Institute of East Africa under the Progresso programme (registration No.9865/RCS). To increase profitability from coffee production through collective marketing and bulking. The organisation now has 100 fully registered members who are the main customers and stakeholders and will produce an estimated 133MT of […]
Mainly made up of small producers, Kibinge was founded in 1995 by coffee farmers in the Masaka region (south of Uganda). They seek to provide technical services in agricultural production, gender integration, poverty eradication, value addition and market access to complement the Uganda governmental programmes. By providing services directly linked to coffee production and sales to its members (processing, certification, transport, marketing, etc.), Kibinge has remained true […]
Established in 2013, the Fairtrade certified cooperative located in Binyangabu District, Kabonero Sub County is made up of 757 coffee farmers (of which 18 are persons with disabilities, 252 are women and 236 are young adults). The coffee is carefully handpicked and processed at an altitude of up to 1990m, bringing out hints of caramel, chocolate, berry and forest fruit flavours. As a […]
Made up of 2,000 members and located in the Rwenzori Mountains of western Uganda, BOCU started in 2011 as a consortium of six NGOs which promoted organic agriculture in Bukonzo. Using the very successful micro-washing station model to promote traceability and increase farmers’ income, the consortium gradually turned into a cooperative and a coffee exporter. It even became a […]
HapaSpace was founded in 2016 as part of the response to assist young adults in the city of Kumasi to build and grow start-ups, develop skills in STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and Maths), and offer a co-working space. The organization supports the entire entrepreneurship journey from idea generation, pre-seed funding to business growth and scaling. HapaSpace uses ideation and 5 days booth camps for business […]
Créé en mars 2016, Incub’Ivoir est né de la volonté de trois jeunes entrepreneurs issus de la diaspora ivoirienne vivant en France. Face à l’insuffisance des structures d’accompagnement pour encadrer, coacher et accompagner la jeunesse ivoirienne en général et les porteurs de projets en particulier, ils décident de mettre en place cet incubateur. Il vise à apporter une formation […]
