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
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