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The London Coffee Festival x Farm Africa Photo Exhibition
Kanungu, in western Uganda, is buzzing with potential. Perched at high altitudes and blessed with a warm tropical climate, the region offers ideal conditions for growing top‑quality coffee. With global demand for great coffee rising, the area has everything it needs to open exciting employment opportunities for young people and women.
But for many farmers, limited knowledge of effective farming techniques and challenges accessing reliable markets have stood in the way of turning coffee into a thriving livelihood.
Many coffee growers in Uganda still live on less than US$2 a day, and women face even greater barriers: often lacking land, coffee trees and access to finance they need to succeed. Their voices are also under‑represented in coffee cooperatives that link farmers to buyers.
That’s where Farm Africa, the official charity of The London Coffee Festival, stepped in by helping three remarkable women from Kanungu - Patience, Hildah and Grace - unlock their full potential.
With training from Farm Africa, they learnt improved coffee‑growing techniques, like mulching and shading their coffee trees to increase yields. They also gained the confidence and support to participate equally in a sector traditionally dominated by men.
This year, their inspiring journeys take centre stage at a special London Coffee Festival x Farm Africa photo exhibition on the second floor of the Festival. Featuring stunning photography by Ugandan photographer Jjumba Martin, the exhibition invites you to travel beyond the cup and into the lives of the women shaping the flavours you enjoy.
Discover how Patience’s improved coffee harvests are helping send her children to school.
Meet Hildah, now the treasurer of her coffee cooperative and a rising role model for young farmers.
Learn how Grace has transformed the quality of her coffee by carefully hand‑selecting only the ripe red cherries.
Across eastern Africa, Farm Africa helps coffee farmers not only in Uganda but also in Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to earn more from their crops through climate‑friendly farming practices that don’t cost the Earth.
Step into their world and see how great coffee begins with empowered farmers.
Find out more about Farm Africa’s work supporting coffee farmers: www.farmafrica.org/coffeefarming or follow us on Instagram @farm_africa){kind=logo}
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