[ #NEWS ] ☕️On the 24th february EU Head of cooperations visited coffee factory 🏭 from @UCFAuganda with support of @icipe and nursery 🌱 implmented by @ROBUST_DeSIRA in Mityana @EUinUG
#TeamEurope is delighted to support Uganda's ambitions to increase 🇺🇬 #coffee production to 20 million bags by 2030 through 🇪🇺🇫🇷 strategic funding & collaboration. Today, our Ambassadors @JanSadek & @XavierSticker had the pleasure of visiting @NaCORIUganda@Cirad#Robusta project
GREAT START of our joint EU Heads of Cooperation trip to central & western 🇺🇬
Visit to @UCFAuganda factory supported by @EUinUG ☕️ Process coffee for 104,000 farmers for export to 🇪🇺 New grading equipment led to 20% increase in incomes for farmers👏
#Robust Project 3rd Annual Review Meeting happening @Makerere. Presentations made on research work being done to improve Robusta coffee agroforestry cropping systems that counter the negative impact of climate change on people & the environment in Uganda. #SustainableEconomicDevt
Today, the Faculty of Agriculture in collaboration with @icipe , @narouganda are holding a 2 days National workshop on the implementation of the project “Scaling regenerative black soldier fly farming innovations with vegetable push-pull cropping systems for One Health in Rural Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda”, funded by the IKEA Foundation.
The objective of the project is to integrate and upscale black soldier fly farming with smallholder vegetable push-pull cropping for better agri-based livelihoods in East Africa.
The workshop is an opportunity to present the project objectives and activities, develop an implementation plan, and assign roles and responsibilities to project partners and stakeholders.
[#Cooperation] 🇺🇬🇫🇷On Thursday May 18th, a scientific cooperation agreement has been signed between Yona Baguma @narouganda & Thierry Lefrançois @Cirad in the presence of Yves Mercier @FrenchEmbassyUg Patrice Grimaud @Cirad Fabrice Pinard & Pierre Marraccini #ROBUST☕️