by Sarah Kenyi | Feb 15, 2021 | Coffee, Coffee agronomy trainings, Uganda
Jubilant sounds of high-pitched ululation pierced the air on the happy occasion of the Uganda Coffee Agronomy Training (UCAT) certificate giving ceremony in Kakumiro District, Uganda. The commencement took place in November 2020 and signified the hard work and...
by Sarah Kenyi | Jul 14, 2020 | Coffee agronomy trainings, COVID-19, Farmer Organization, Tanzania
To adapt to the global Coronavirus pandemic, Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) has adjusted our approach to the Building Coffee Farmers Alliance Phase II project in Tanzania which is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA),...
by Sarah Kenyi | Jun 25, 2020 | Alliance for Resilient Coffee, Climate, Coffee agronomy trainings, COVID-19, Irrigation, Uganda
The effects of climate change such as prolonged droughts and unreliable weather patterns adversely impact smallholder coffee growing farmers in Uganda. To mitigate this, the three active Feed the Future Alliance for Resilient Coffee (ARC) consortium partners in the...
by HRNS Admin | Jan 21, 2020 | Coffee, Coffee agronomy trainings, Evaluation, M&E, Uganda
In Uganda, it’s estimated that over 10 million people depend on coffee for their livelihood, but here, productivity and coffee yields are among the lowest in the world. For 12 years, Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) has implemented projects that train smallholder...
by Mohammad Reiza | May 13, 2019 | Coffee, Coffee agronomy trainings, Indonesia
Inviting us to stand in a leafy green corner outside his house and holding up a hand-crafted, wooden bee box, Sofik beams as he tells us of his bees. “Since I started raising bees, the coffee on my farm is doing better, while the cash I earn from selling honey helps...
by Gabriela Tyggum | Apr 24, 2019 | Coffee, Coffee agronomy trainings, Farmer Organization, Honduras
The Leveron family lives on a small coffee farm in Ocotepeque, Honduras, part of the Trifinio region in Central America, the tri-border area of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. In the Trifinio, the main agricultural activity is coffee farming. For Kevin, Olvin,...