WCR Leads Nearly $1 Million Project to Strengthen Ugandan Coffee Sector

The nonprofit World Coffee Research (WCR) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) have announced a €850,000 (roughly $994,000) investment designed to improve Ugandan farmers’ access to disease-resistant coffee varieties while supporting the country’s long-term production goals. The project, which promises to broadly expand the country’s planting infrastructure, is backed by the Lavazza Foundation , The J.M. Smucker Co. and JDE Peet’s . Uganda has overtaken Ethiopia as Africa’s largest coffee exporter, generating $2.4 billion in coffee export earnings in the 12 months ending October 2025, according to official government data . WCR will lead the initiative, which is being implemented in part through UNIDO’s ACT Coffee Programme (Advancing Climate-Resilience and Transformation in African Coffee), funded by the Italian Cooperation through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. “Uganda’s coffee sector holds extraordinary potential, ...