How a national coffee policy will revamp Uganda’s cash cow

By Taddewo Senyonyi  Over the last 18 years, between 1994 and 2012 coffee has fetched Uganda a total of over US$5 billion. Up until  today, coffee exports, make up the bulk of Uganda exports  between 10-15%, but despite all this, there has been no regulatory framework to guide the production and marketing of a crop on which Ugandan households survive until recently when cabinet approved th