US EditionIn coffee-producing Uganda, an emerging sisterhood wants more women involved
- Meridah Nandudu founded Bayaaya Specialty Coffee in eastern Uganda in 2015 to support women coffee growers.
- She created a strategy to pay women a higher price per kilogram to encourage them to deliver coffee themselves instead of men.
- Bayaaya now includes over 600 women, mostly from a mountainous area producing prized arabica beans sold to exporters.
- Uganda, one of Africa’s top two coffee producers, exported over 6 million bags between 2023 and 2024, earning $1.3 billion as Brazilian production dwindles due to drought.
- The initiative increases women’s role and earnings in coffee, fostering family teamwork and changing local traditions in a historically conservative society.
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In coffee-producing Uganda, an emerging sisterhood wants more women involved
A female business owner in Uganda wanted to create a coffee sisterhood. She knew that women in one of Africa's largest producers did the bulk of the “donkey work” and that men in the largely conservative society stepped in when it came time to sell.
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