UNIDO and global coffee industry leaders announce a new joint coffee initiative in Uganda

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and World Coffee Research (WCR), through the Advancing Climate-Resilience and Transformation in African Coffee Programme (ACT), announced an €850,000 co-investment in a new initiative to strengthen Uganda’s coffee seed systems, support farmer livelihoods, and advance long-term sustainability. The initiative brings together WCR, UNIDO—implementing the ACT Coffee Programme with funding from the Italian Cooperation—the Lavazza Foundation, The J.M. Smucker Co., and JDE Peet’s in a coalition committed to securing the future of Uganda’s coffee sector.

The three-year project will expand access to high-quality planting material, creating new pathways to deliver improved coffee seedlings to farmers and helping boost productivity and resilience across Uganda’s coffee sector—Africa’s largest coffee exporter.

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