Better results, reduced losses, improved market linkages and access to finance! From avocados to coffee and spices, watch how smaller firms and public and private institutions in the East African Community (EAC) are benefiting from the Market Access Upgrade Programme (MARKUP) through an improved business...

The EAC Coffee Business Forum brought more than 150 stakeholders together to discuss how to overcome trade barriers, improve access to finance and strengthen value addition processes to enhance competitiveness. The EAC Coffee Business Forum offered a platform to build business and institutional connections,...

The EU-EAC Policy Brief #3 highlights the importance of harmonising East Africa (EA) Standards of the MARKUP priority commodities with the Codex and EU standards.

Friday February 14, 2020 Mombasa, Kenya – The EAC Coffee Business Forum finished in Mombasa, Kenya today following a week which brought together 150 stakeholders from across East Africa’s coffee value chain to discuss barriers to trade and how to capitalise on current opportunities to be competitive...

Coffee farmers and others along the value chain in East Africa are worried about the ever decreasing price of coffee. Experts says that this will affect the desire for the young generation to invest in the coffee business as the old aged coffee growers become frail. Uganda NBS's Solomon Serwanjja...

Tuesday February 11, 2020 Mombasa, Kenya – The EAC Coffee Business Forum today kicked off with high level speakers and the launch of an innovative online Quality Portal designed to help coffee producers better understand and meet quality requirements for exporting to the EU.

Monday February 10, 2020 High level policy makers and business leaders meeting to discuss breaking trade barriers in the EAC and beyond Focus on finance and market access for the region to become a more competitive exporter of coffee Workshops, online auction, coffee cupping and exhibition...

Mombasa, 11-14 February 2020 The EAC Coffee Business Forum - organised in conjunction with the African Fine Coffee Conference & Exhibition - will feature a week of interactive discussions, workshops and networking events for regional and international businesses, service providers and policy...

Bujumbura, Burundi, 20-22 January 2020 With recent news that the impacts of climate change could have detrimental effects on global chocolate availability, a National Consultative meeting on cocoa and cocoa products in Burundi is well timed.

Two new policy briefs focusing on the Status of Standards Harmonisation for Selected Agricultural Export Products in the EAC and on Enhancing Private Sector Participation in the Harmonisation of Standards are now available in the resources section of the EAC MARKUP website.  

Representatives of coffee sector associations from the five countries participating in MARKUP participated in a Regional Coffee Advocacy Meeting in Arusha on 10th December,

Trade and Investment Support Institutions play a crucial role in the development of local SMEs and the markets in which they do their business. They play a pivotal role in monitoring, evaluating and managing the results for trade promotion interventions