The Coffee Gardens — Impact - Specialty Coffee Uganda

2022/23 Impact & Transparency Report

This Impact & Transparency Report contains the work we do with our farming community, the cost of producing our coffee, how much our farmers earn and who our partners are. This report also showcases some of the key people behind our coffee, to give them the recognition they deserve.

External Research

In 2023, Masters Students at the London School of Economics and Political Science built us a new monitoring and evaluation framework to measure our impact on the lives of our farmers. This framework has enabled us - for the first time - to provide farmers with individual scorecards so they can see their own performance and set their own goals.

Capital Coalitions conducted a “Natural Capital” Impact Analysis to assess and quantify our environmental impact on society (Dec 2022).

"The Coffee Gardens is already demonstrating how, with the right investments, growth and sustainability can be
decoupled. Increased processing and profitability does not have to equate to an increased cost to the environment
and society. The Coffee Gardens is leading the sector into new opportunity for greener market premiums."

Café Africa mentions us in their Review and Analysis of policies, strategies, attitudes, practices and institutions for strengthening coffee agroforestry in Uganda as one of the case studies including organisations that promote coffee agroforestry among smallholder farmers.

“In 2018, the company set up micro-coffee processing station in the Bukyabo valley in Sironko district, with strict processing practices using state of the art equipment and mobile tools to track each batch of coffee from the gardens to the store. Working with over 500 farming households, the company offers above market prices, undertakes trainings and access to finance, as a motivation to farmers for higher cup scores, creating an incentive to improve coffee growing practices.”