Photography for the Uganda Coffee Agronomy Training (UCAT) program, a large-scale farmer training initiative in western Uganda.
Uganda is one of the world's leading Robusta coffee producers, with an estimated 1.8 million smallholders growing coffee — one of the largest coffee-farming populations globally. Despite this, yields remain among the lowest in the world, with many growers living in poverty.
UCAT was implemented by Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) and TechnoServe, training approximately 60,000 farmers over four years. A subset of around 12,000 farmers across six districts — Kibaale, Kagadi, Kyenjojo, Sheema, Mbarara, and Ntungamo — participated in a randomised controlled trial led by researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Harvard University, measuring the impact of agronomy training on coffee yields.