Résumé
In Uganda, the Good African Coffee company, in conjunction with ITC, is demonstrating how public-private partnership can make a significant impact on low-income rural communities. About 85% of Ugandans are farmers, but only a small percentage of Uganda's gross domestic product comes from agriculture due to lack of access to markets, poor export strategies and crude farming techniques. In 2007 the Ugandan public and private sectors launched their National Export Strategy and identified organic production as a promising market opportunity for smallholders who traditionally had the most precarious livelihoods and lowest incomes. Following on from this, in 2009 ITC's Trade and Environment Program helped more than 2,000 smallholder coffee farmers, mostly women, to convert to organic production and receive the highly prized organic production certificate. Following the success of the project, ITC has extended technical assistance in 2009-2010 to another three coffee and tea companies supplied by 5000 farmers.
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Extrait
Ugandan Coffee Growers
The first time Andrew Rugasira drove the 800 kilometres (500 miles) from Uganda's capital, Kampala, to the Rwenzori Mountains, he went to convince farmers why they should sell their coffee beans to him. Despite being offered more money than anyone else had before, the farmers were reluctant to do business with Mr Rugasira. Until then, most of...
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