Kick-off workshop with Mubende District on Improving Children’s Education & Youth Employment In March 2024 we kicked off the project “Improving Children’s Education & Youth Employment” with all District representatives present. Together with the key project stakeholders: Kitenga and Kanseera Coffee Cooperatives,…
Sadly true: Education for children is not always a given in Uganda. Over the past 6 months, we have conducted research together with AidEnvironment and CEFORD on school absenteeism and child labour, among about 950 farming families in the Brand Coffee Farm…
Although the first coffee we have planted goes back to August 2018, the coffee planted looks very promising. Comparing the coffee with some time ago it has been developing very well. We are aware this is only the second (small) crop of…
At Brand Coffee Farm our agroferestry model is starting to get some shape. After 3 years we have planted our first coffee seedlings, we started to experiment with intercropping macadamia trees, vanilla plantes and banana trees in between the planted coffee. Due…
In October 2021 we visited the vanilla processing plant near Jinja (Amani Agro Hub). In order to prepare our vanilla operations we took a look at the vanilla processing facilities. Very interesting to see the entire process from vanilla harvesting to the…
We have finished the Brand Coffee Factory on our farm. It took some time to complete due to the Covid-19 situation in Uganda, but now it is there ready to start. The building has large storage and processing rooms, an office, bedroom…