The project provided the opportunity to transfer knowledge and skills that are critical to the self-sustenance of smallholder coffee farming through training.
The global coffee sector is faced by a number of challenges, which include variability in yields and prices; an aging farmer population and a lack of economic incentives for younger generations to stay on farms; increasing production costs and scarce labor supplies; insufficient processing infrastructure; the effects of climate change on weather variability and crop diseases; and environmental issues related to water use, contamination, and deforestation. As a result, the profitability of coffee farming is at risk in many producing countries, which threatens the livelihoods of coffee growers. The above challenges hold for smallholder farming in Kenya and Uganda.
