Koppert Foundation: The banana harvest of hope
21 July 2026
Success story: Musinguzi's Matooke Enterprise The Barren Plot and a Fading Dream In Kihanga Village, Bugaaki Parish (Uganda), 45-year-old father Musinguzi Robert looked upon his one-acre plot with a sense of profound frustration. For years, he had tried to cultivate the land passed down from his father, but it yielded little more than struggle. His primary crop, maize, was a constant gamble. Erratic rains would either drown the young shoots or abandon