In coffee-producing Uganda, an emerging sisterhood wants more women involved
SIRONKO, Uganda — Meridah Nandudu envisioned a coffee sisterhood in Uganda , and the strategy for expanding it was simple: Pay a higher price per kilogram when a female grower took the beans to a collection point.
It worked. More and more men who typically made the deliveries allowed their wives to go instead.
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