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 to a ...

With some education and training, a woman in Uganda defies cultural norms and starts up her own coffee business. But she ruffled feathers in the process by purchasing coffee beans only from women ...

KAMPALA, March 9 (Reuters) - The value of Uganda's coffee exports was broadly flat in January amid lower global prices of the commodity, Uganda's ministry of agriculture said in a report on Monday.

In Uganda’s hills and plains, where coffee has long been the lifeline of families and entire communities, a quiet storm is brewing – one tearing through livelihoods and threatening the country’s ...

Meridah Nandudu, Bayaaya specialty coffee ltd founder, holds fried roasted coffee beans in Mbale, Uganda, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda) SIRONKO, Uganda (AP) — Meridah Nandudu envisioned ...

In parts of Uganda, coffee is seen as a man's thing, and that includes growing it, selling it, even drinking it. But one woman is challenging the status quo. She has built her own coffee company, and ...