Uganda: Women Coffee Farmers in Bugisu Call for Fair, Inclusive Coffee Value Chain

Uganda: Women Coffee Farmers in Bugisu Call for Fair, Inclusive Coffee Value Chain

Women coffee farmers in Uganda's Bugisu region have called for greater equity, inclusion, and accountability in the country's coffee value chain.

Women Coffee Farmers Demand Recognition and Support

Women Coffee farmers A group of women coffee farmers from the Bugisu region in Uganda convened at the Mayor’s Gardens in Mbale to voice their concerns and interface directly with duty bearers and farmer organizations. The event, hosted by Food Rights Alliance in partnership with ActionAid Uganda, aimed to promote compliance, sustainability, and equity in Uganda’s coffee value chain. The women farmers highlighted several challenges they face, inc…

Women Coffee Farmers in Bugisu Demand an Inclusive and Equitable Coffee Value Chain

By Edrisa Ssentongo A resounding call for equity, inclusion, and accountability echoed through the Mayor’s Gardens in Mbale on Tuesday 12th June, as women coffee farmers from the Bugisu region convened during the Coffee Baraza. Hosted by Food Rights Alliance in partnership with ActionAid Uganda, the event was a timely and urgent platform for women to voice their concerns and interface directly with duty bearers, and farmer organizations. to prom…