Uganda is one of Africa’s top two coffee producers, exporting more than 6 million bags of coffee between September 2023 and August 2024, accounting for $1.3 billion in earnings.

Uganda’s coffee export earnings more than doubled to $167.68mn in March 2025, compared to $82.56mn in February 2024. The number of bags exported rose to 555,756, ...

Uganda’s coffee industry is a vital engine of socio-economic transformation, particularly amid recent global market growth. From 2013 to 2023, coffee consistently contributed 14.4 percent to ...

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA SIRONKO, Uganda (AP) — Meridah Nandudu envisioned a coffee sisterhood in Uganda, and the strategy for expanding it was simple: Pay a higher price per kilogram when a female… ...

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 ...

Meridah Nandudu envisioned a coffee sisterhood in Uganda, and the strategy for expanding it was simple: Pay a higher price per kilogram when a female grower took the beans to a collection point.

SIRONKO, Uganda (AP) — Meridah Nandudu envisioned a coffee sisterhood in Uganda, and the strategy for expanding it was simple: Pay a higher price per kilogram when a female grower took the beans ...

A decade ago, the price of coffee bought by a middleman from a Ugandan farmer was roughly 8,000 Uganda shillings, or just over $2 at today’s exchange rate.

Meridah Nandudu, Bayaaya specialty coffee ltd founder, holds fried roasted coffee beans in Mbale, Uganda, March 14, 2025. Credit: AP/Hajarah Nalwadda. By The Associated PressUpdated May 10, 2025.