Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Stakeholders gather known as for pressing reforms and investments to fabricate a resilient and equitable espresso sector in Uganda, as ticket volatility and structural weaknesses proceed to undermine the country’s ambitions to became a world espresso powerhouse.
This came throughout a hybrid multi-stakeholder dialogue held on July 8, 2025, in Kampala, below the theme “Building a Resilient and Equitable Coffee Sector: Addressing Label Volatility and Structural Vulnerabilities.” The tournament, organised by SEATINI Uganda, introduced collectively policymakers, farmers, cooperatives, lecturers, and non-public sector actors.
Turning in the keynote contend with, Bohela Lunogelo, executive director of the Financial and Social Be taught Foundation (ESRF), underscored the must adopt a comprehensive model to administer espresso ticket volatility.
He emphasized the importance of value addition, funding in local processing, tax incentives, climate-trim agriculture, and gender-inclusive policies.
“We must at all times toughen farmer cooperatives, magnify into intellectual alternate markets, and promote agroforestry programmes that make stronger sustainability,” Lunogelo acknowledged.
Herbert Kafeero, programmes and communications supervisor at SEATINI Uganda, highlighted the must elevate home consumption, make stronger value addition past the archaic 60kg obtain model, and contend with prolonged-standing vulnerabilities in the espresso value chain.
“We gather taken some strides, nevertheless we will no longer be yet there. Uganda must fetch up this drowsing huge,” Kafeero acknowledged.
At the same tournament, officials supplied the originate of the new SEATINI Coffee App, now readily accessible on Google Play Retailer, to make stronger access to data for value chain actors.
In the same engagements officials from the Ministry of Agriculture gather reaffirmed the authorities’s dedication to the Coffee Roadmap, which targets to invent 20 million 60kg baggage and generate USD 1.5 billion annually by 2030.
On the choice hand, consultants acknowledge continual challenges such as excessive production prices, restricted extension products and services, and market access hurdles, especially below new EU alternate rules.
A excessive-stage panel discussant known as for strengthening institutional frameworks, deepening monetary access for smallholder farmers, and leveraging digital platforms to elevate market participation.
The dialogue often referred to as for multi-sector collaboration, policy coherence, and funding in inclusive programs that guarantee intellectual prices and sustainable livelihoods for Uganda’s 12 million espresso-dependent households.
