MARKUP’s newest implementing partner is Solidaridad, the international civil society NGO, has begun work on Result 2 in Tanzania, working in the horticulture, tea and coffee sectors. The aim of the intervention is to improve access and compliance with voluntary sustainability standards.  Mary...

This year, United Fresh live was an online event, providing the unique opportunity of attendingan international trade fair from the comfort of your living room. The participation of avocado exporters from Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzaniato this online trade fair was organised and coordinated by the...

MARKUP training through the International Trade Centre (ITC) for SMEs to improve their access to finance continues under the COVID19 crisis. Online bootcamps will launch a fresh round of Access to Finance (A2F) in July 2020. In the meantime, business development service (BDS) providers are offering...

Avocado and fresh produce exporters under EU-EAC MARKUP participate in United Fresh 2020, a virtual trade fair which will run from 16-19 June 2020.

Are you a small and medium enterprise (SME) from a Partner State of the East African Community (EAC)? Do you have questions about how to export your products to other markets? Do you have doubts about quality standards, regulations and processes to export your products?

  MARKUP is pleased to share highlights of our activities between December 2019 and March 2020, in our quest to improve intra-regional trade and export of selected agricultural value chains.

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.