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DOING GOOD IS GOOD BUSINESS: How Nile Breweries is financially empowering women farmers in Uganda while securing sustainable barley supply to feed growing demand

by Muhereza Kyamutetera
Chelimo Winnie, a barley and timber farmer from Chepkwutar village, in Kapchorwa Municipality, North Eastern Uganda, one of the beneficiaries of Nile Breweries’ Sustainable Barley Programme. PHOTO/Courtesy
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Nile Breweries Limited is Uganda’s largest beer brewer. To sustain, such a large operation, for its production and brewing activities, the company depends on high-quality crops, such as barley produced by farming communities across Uganda, many of whom are female.   The company, according to Theunis Coetzee, the Agriculture Manager, Nile Breweries, uses up to up to 98% local material in

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Muhereza Kyamutetera is the Executive Editor of CEO East Africa Magazine. I am a travel enthusiast and the Experiences & Destinations Marketing Manager at EDXTravel. Extremely Ugandaholic. Ask me about #1000Reasons2ExploreUganda and how to Take Your Place In The African Sun.