[#CapacityBuilding] 🇺🇬 🇫🇷 🥼Training of KISEKKA RONALD NARO-NaFORRI Makerere University in #eDNA extraction at Plant Health Institute Montpellier Cirad with the #MagnetaPure3Plus Macherey-Nagel AG funded by #ROBUST EU in Uganda

#Robust Project 3rd Annual Review Meeting happening Makerere University. 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

[#HotNews] 🇺🇬☕️ This was TODAY !!! #Robust Project 3rd annual review meeting Makerere University Cirad icipe European Commission IWCA NARO-NaFORRI National Coffee Research Institute Uganda (NaCORI) NARO Uganda Strand Life Sciences

📢📢📢#ROBUST is present to #MakGorillaConf3

☕️#ROBUST #PhD students are communicating their results at #MakGorillaConf2023 🇺🇬👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 National Coffee Research Institute Uganda (NaCORI) NARO-NaFORRI Cirad

☕ Le #café est la 2e matière première la plus vendue au monde, mais les cultivateurs de caféiers, souvent parmi les plus pauvres, souffrent des effets du changement climatique. Reportage avec les caféiculteurs en #Ouganda 🇺🇬 👉 cirad.fr/les-actualites… EU in Uganda ROBUST #Coffee #Agroforestry #ClimateChange

Working through farmer groups, cooperatives, or community organizations like #UCFA helps distribute information quickly and ensures collective adoption of practices. #Researchdissemination, #Coffee, #Pestmanagement, #RobustProject

The Heads of Cooperation from EU in Uganda members today visited Uganda Coffee Farmers Alliance (UCFA) to understand how the coffee cooperative is working in Uganda. UCFA is also a key partner of the ROBUST project financed by the EU and operated by the French research center Cirad.

GREAT START of our joint EU Heads of Cooperation trip to central & western 🇺🇬 Visit to Uganda Coffee Farmers Alliance (UCFA) factory supported by EU in Uganda ☕️ Process coffee for 104,000 farmers for export to 🇪🇺 New grading equipment led to 20% increase in incomes for farmers👏

Today we are humbled to have hosted heads of cooperations from member states of EU in Uganda at our factory in Mityana as part of their Feild visits of the ROBUST #Coffee #Agroforestry #ClimateChange project they supported as an entity we are looking forward to working together again in the upcoming projects

There is no better way to empower a farmers than giving them the knowledge they need to have a successful farming experience Today our agronomist Rutaremwa jerome spent his day with farmers in their Fields teaching them about the right agronomic practices for better results

#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 Jan Sadek & Xavier Sticker had the pleasure of visiting National Coffee Research Institute Uganda (NaCORI) Cirad #Robusta project

[ #NEWS ] ☕️On the 24th february EU Head of cooperations visited coffee factory 🏭 from Uganda Coffee Farmers Alliance (UCFA) with support of icipe and nursery 🌱 implmented by ROBUST #Coffee #Agroforestry #ClimateChange in Mityana EU in Uganda

Feild farmer schools are simple yet effective ways our small scale farmers get to learn and relearn about the good agronomic practices to enhance productivity and with over 10 agroforesters with support from EU in Uganda we are promoting coffee Agro forestry under ROBUST #Coffee #Agroforestry #ClimateChange

We directly source, bulk , add value and export good quality coffee from the small scale farmers from over 120 cooperatives and we pride in having over 100k members across Uganda and we also pride in being implementation partners for the ROBUST #Coffee #Agroforestry #ClimateChange by EU in Uganda

[ #Perspectives] 📢 New publication led by #JudithNantongo in #AgroforestrySystems for a sustainable future for #coffee in #Uganda #ROBUST NARO Uganda NARO-NaFORRI Cirad 📖 Consult the full review with SharedIt rdcu.be/ejx94 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The robust Project annual Review Meeting happened at NARO-NaFORRI with PhD students supported by the project presenting their work progress. Work package leaders also presented and discussed milestones achieved as the project nears closure.

Today ROBUST #Coffee #Agroforestry #ClimateChange project held her 4th annual review meeting at NARO-NaFORRI. 11 Phd Students under the project presented results from their research activities which will be important in refining #Coffee #Agroforestry models for enhanced Coffee productivity in Uganda.

[ #SHARING ] Because Partnership & Friendship 🫂 is crucial in ROBUST #Coffee #Agroforestry #ClimateChange We shared a cake 🎂 made by #CakeWalkers for our 4th annual review meeting NARO-NaFORRI NARO Uganda National Coffee Research Institute Uganda (NaCORI) Cirad European Commission

[ #Soterobiont ] ☕ Two weeks ago the terrific #SoilHealth team NARO-NaFORRI Cirad was back in #KaweriCoffeePlantation #Uganda 🇺🇬 🙏🏾 for the 2nd seasons of #coffee #microbiota sampling 💪🏾 💪🏾 💪🏾 👀Stay tuned !!! #ROBUST #DeSIRA European Commission France in Uganda 🇫🇷🇺🇬