The African Fine Coffees Review Magazine Editorial Team is pleased to share with you the Jan – Mar 2013 issue of our African Fine Coffees Review Magazine themed “A Celebration of Diversity At The Pearl“.
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Martin Maraka
Programs Associate
African Fine Coffees Association
 

In order to continue delivery of services for members in the region, the 4C association is currently looking for a Manager East Africa to act as 4C focal point for membership services, cooperation and representation.
The Manager East Africa Cooperates with the 4C Secretariat in Bonn and other 4C Regional Offices and reports to the Director Sustainability Innovations.
Application Deadline: Open until filled.
Click below to download the application form.
http://www.4c-coffeeassociation.org/fileadmin/4C_Files/Images/vacancies/JobOffer_Manager_East_Africa_May2013.pdf
For more information please contact;
George Watene
Regional Manager Eastern Africa
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phone: +254728606959
e-mail:  george.watene@4c-coffeeassociation.org
4C Regional Office Eastern Africa | c/o AFCA
Plot 4, Bazarabusa Drive, Off Luthuli Avenue, Bugolobi | …

The Uganda Coffee Federation has announced the date and venue the 2013 Uganda Coffee Day as 3rd of October 2013 at the Mukono Zonal Agricultural Research and Developmental Institute (MUZARDI).
The 4th Edition of this highly popular exhibition and symposium will be themed Black Coffee Twig Borer: Surely Not Again: Production Recovery in the Balance, we must open the Battle Front”
For more information please contact UCF at Coffee House Plot 35 Jinja Road.
P.O.Box 21679, Kampala, Tel: 256-414 343692/667
Email:
Betty Namwagala: betty.namwagala@ugandacoffeetrade.com
Office: ucf@ugandacoffeetrade.com
Website: www.ugandacoffeetrade.com
Transport will be available from Coffee House to the Venue

From the 19th to 20th of April 2013, Kenya held its annual National Barista Championship. The event was the ninth edition of the already highly successful championship series.
The competition attracted over 50 competitors from Kenya’s premier hotels, restaurants and coffee houses. They took part in the knock-out rounds and then the lucky 18 proceeded to Semi Finals at the Junction Atrium and eventually the best six made it to final stage.
The present Kenyan champion, Ms. Rhoda Wambui from Nairobi Serena Hotel retained the first position closely followed by a Mr. David …

About Jungle Estate
Set high in the Mt. Kenya highlands, Jungle Estate is a medium scale coffee farm producing single estate, top quality coffee. It sits between two permanent rivers at 5,800 feet above sea level on deep volcanic soils full of nutrients. Jungle Estate is home to top quality coffee due to its intrinsic climatic, geographical and soil features coupled with careful cultivation, nurturing and harvesting of the coffee beans.
The Beautiful High Place
Jungle estate was originally established by the European settlers in Kenya in the late 1920′s and named “Jungle …

 
Since it was founded in 2003, Good African Coffee has helped thousands of farmers earn a decent living, send their children to school and escape a spiral of debt and dependence. Africa has received over $1 trillion in aid over the last fifty years and yet despite these huge inflows, the continent remains mired in poverty, disease and systemic corruption. In A Good African Story, Andrew Rugasira argues that trade has achieved what years of aid failed to deliver, and has provided a tantalising glimpse of what Africa could be. …

African Coffee Champion Takes on Uganda Challenge
Although the stimulating properties of coffee are thought to have been discovered in Africa – according to legend, by an Ethiopian goatherd – the consumption of the beverage is not as widespread in the continent as it is elsewhere in the world.
That has been a major problem for Africa’s champion barista Roberts Mbabazi from Uganda, a nation of tea-drinkers, which is one of the world’s biggest producers of Robusta beans.
“Ugandans don’t really drink coffee. That has been my biggest challenge. Someone will ask you: …

As Uganda celebrates 50 years of independence, the coffee fraternity will join in to celebrate the 3rd Uganda Coffee Day on Thursday 4th October 2012 at the Coffee Research Centre, Kituuza, Mukono District under the theme “ Uganda @50 Years: Milestones of the Century and Strategies for the Future.” The importance of coffee to the economy of Uganda cannot be underestimated and it’s therefore important for us celebrate with the nation.
The 3rd Uganda Coffee Day is proudly sponsored by aBi Trust, USAID LEAD and Solidaridad Network with support from UCDA. …

Olam International Limited (“Olam”), a leading global, integrated supply chain manager and processor of agricultural products and food ingredients, announced today that it has acquired 100% equity interest in Northern Coffee Corporation Ltd (“NCCL”), the largest coffee estate in Zambia, for approximately US$6.15 million through a bidding process organised by the Zambia Development Authority (“ZDA”).
A further US$40 million will be committed as capital expenditure and pre-operative expenditure to fully develop 2,000 hectares of Arabica coffee plantation over the next five years. The estate is expected to yield approximately 4,500 metric …

The July – Sept 2012 issue of the magazine is now out!
We are pleased to produce another issue of this rich magazine which provides its readership  with a wealth of insight and content into the African Coffee industry like no other!
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