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Agroforestry for People, Ecosystems, and Climate
February 8, 2026Coffee agroforestry has sustained communities on Mount Elgon for generations. Today, these systems a... -
Video: Exploring incentives for stewardship among farmers doing coffee agroforestry
January 3, 2026Joyce Lunyolo, PhD student, Makerere University, tells about her project: Exploring incentives for s... -
Video: Soil carbon, structure and biodiversity in Coffea arabica agroforestry
January 3, 2026Derick Kisegu, PhD student, Makerere University, tells about his project: Soil carbon, structure and... -
Coffee from Mount Elgon Forest Project is now on sale
October 3, 2025Coffee from Mount Elgon Forest Project is now on sale from Frellsen Coffee, who collaborates with Af... -
Preparing for field work in the Mountain Elgon area, Eastern Uganda.
September 22, 2025The Mountain Elgon area is ecologically and socioeconomically important. Numerous nongovernmental or... -
Reflections on my Erasmus+ mobility scholarship to NCU, Torun.
September 18, 2025Early this year, in April, I was privileged to participate in a three-month Erasmus+ mobility schola... -
Reflections on my 3-Month Erasmus+ PhD Mobility in Poland
September 11, 2025From April to July 2025, I had the incredible opportunity to spend three months at the Faculty of th... -
Video: Exploring Opportunities in Coffee Agroforestry
June 4, 2025Patrick Kayima, PhD student, Makerere University, tells about his PhD journey under the AfPEC projec... -
AfPEC field visit to introduce Living Labs
April 5, 2025From 24 th -27 March 2025, YLEC, JESE and SwB Uganda representatives had inception meetings with far... -
Video: Pests and pollinators in the arabica coffee producing hub of Mt Elgon region, Uganda.
March 13, 2025Esther Patricia Adoch, PhD research fellow, AfPEC Project, Makerere University, Uganda tells about h... -
Pests and pollinators in the arabica coffee producing hub of Mt Elgon region, Uganda.
February 12, 2025My PhD project focusses on pests and pollinators in the arabica coffee producing hub of Mt Elgon reg... -
Exploring Opportunities in Coffee Agroforestry: My AfPEC PhD Journey
December 13, 2024Starting on my PhD journey under the AfPEC project is an exciting and fulfilling experience. My rese... -
Understanding of soil carbon, structure and biodiversity in Coffea arabica agroforestry
November 29, 2024Understanding of soil carbon, structure and biodiversity in Coffea arabica agroforestry systems in M... -
Exploring incentives for stewardship in coffee agroforestry among farmers in the Mt. Elgon region
November 12, 2024Blog by Joyce Lunyolo, PhD student, Makerere University Just started as a PhD student, I am excit... -
AfPEC fieldwork
October 3, 2024The AfPEC fieldwork has been started in one of the Mt Elgon communities, Sipi, by three master stude... -
AfPEC kick-off worshop in Mbale, Uganda.
October 3, 2024AfPEC works to document the effects of agroforestry in terms of ecosystem services and livelihood be... -
PhD Scholarship Opportunities on the ‘Agroforestry for People, Ecosystems and Climate (AfPEC) Project’
March 22, 2024Considering the importance of coffee production in Uganda, and the international demand for sust... -
Collaboration with Frellsen Kaffe
January 18, 2024AfPEC coordinates with Frellsen Kaffe that runs development projects on sustainable coffee in the sa... -
Project start
January 10, 2024The AfPEC projects starts the 1. of April 2024. Having three universites and three NGOs as partner...