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Opinions & Commentary
Cooperatives are America’s Best-Kept Foreign Policy Asset
NEW YORK, May 10, 2025 –– As policymakers in Washington debate how best to invest in international development, the mission has taken on renewed urgency. These investments must serve a higher purpose:…
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Africa coffee exports jump 7.1 percent in January 2025 as Ivory Coast and Uganda lead
KAMPALA, March 10, 2025 — The latest report from the International Coffee Organisation [ICO] reveals that, in January 2025, exports of all forms of coffee from Africa increased by 7.1 percent, rising…
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14th EAC Games close on a high for Uganda
MOMBASA, December 19, 2024 – The 14th East African Community [ EAC ] Inter-Parliamentary Games closed on Tuesday in Mombasa City, Kenya with Team Uganda taking accolades in many of the sports…
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Rice and oilseed outputs forecast to peak as wheat and maize face decline – new report
KAMPALA, June 14, 2024 – The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation [FAO] projects that the world’s major food commodities will be in “adequate supply” in 2024 and 2025. But the organisation warns…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Uganda’s annual coffee exports rise 7 percent
KAMPALA, February 19, 2024 – Uganda’s coffee exports surged by 7 percent over the twelve months from February 2023 to January 2024, reaching a total of 6.10 million bags and generating an…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Annual coffee exports fetch Uganda over US$ 940mln
KAMPALA, October 20, 2023 – Coffee exports for the coffee year [2022/2023] totaled 6.14 million bags worth US$ 940.36mln compared to 5.86mln bags worth US$ 877.66mln in the previous coffee year [2021/2022],…
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Global coffee exports drop 9.6 percent in March 2023
KAMPALA-Global green bean exports in March 2023 totalled 10.90 million bags, as compared with 12.06mln bags in the same month of the previous year, the International Coffee Organisation [ICO] says in its…
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International
CHS to build new grain shuttle facility
SIOUX FALLS– CHS Inc., a farmer-owned cooperative in the United States, will begin construction this spring on a new grain shuttle facility in southeast South Dakota, a strategic location in its Pacific…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Museveni warns MPs to keep off Vinci coffee deal
NTUNGAMO – President Yoweri Museveni continues to push for the coffee deal signed between government and Uganda Vinci Coffee Company Limited [UNCCL], despite the project receiving strong criticism from both the public…
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Ugandan coffee ranked high as Museveni seeks to bolster European and American markets
KAMPALA – Ugandan coffee will soon find its way to the European Balkan States market following a concerted effort by President Yoweri Museveni to bolster Uganda’s trade links beyond Africa, a continent…
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