Bees for Business: Kabwohe
sUMMARY
This 12-month project, launched in February 2024, is supporting 210 coffee farmers (46% women) in western Uganda to diversify into beekeeping to provide them a second source of income alongside coffee farming.
Location: Kabwohe, Uganda
Date: February 2024 - April 2025
Participants: 210 coffee farmers
Partners: Banyankole Coffee Services (BCS)
DONATEProject Details
To deliver this project we are working in partnership with Ugandan coffee co-operative, Banyankole Coffee Services (BCS).
This project has equipped coffee farmers with beekeeping skills and provided them with the tools and equipment to set up a beekeeping enterprise to increase their income and improve their livelihood.
As part of this project, agroforestry trees will be distributed to the project participants for planting in their coffee farms, where the beehives will be placed. Placing the hives in the coffee farms, will increase coffee yield through cross pollination from the bees.
Project aims
- 210 farmers will establish a sustainably managed beekeeping enterprise producing 35kg of honey each year.
- Coffee production will increase by 50% over the next four years as a result of increased pollination from bees, supporting the sustainability of the co-operative.
- Farmers will increase their climate resilience and improve their coffee yield through the planting of agroforestry trees.
Participant story: Meet Dan
Project Participant, Dan Kashurura, is a member of Banyankole Coffee Services and has been a coffee farmer for 15 years.
Dan had always wanted to go into beekeeping but never had the resources to start. Through this project he has now received five modern beehives and he is currently preparing for his first harvest of honey.
Dan said: “At first I was fearing bees, but after training I was convinced I could be friends with them. After training I got more knowledge and courage”
Image: Project participant, Dan Kashurura, standing next to his new beehives along his coffee trees.
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