Banyankole Kweterana Co-operative Union, BKCU was founded by 350 coffee producing cooperatives. Banyankole Kweterana means “The people of the Ankole region working together”.

Its base is the coffee producers of the cooperatives of the 10 districts of the Ankole region, in Uganda. Currently, the operational activities of BKCU are the local sales and export of Robusta and Arabica coffee, especially for Fairtrade markets.

They work with the objective of increasing purchases and exports of coffee within Fair Trade channels, in order to improve the living conditions of grassroots cooperatives. They provide the necessary infrastructure for the reactivation of cooperatives, they propose training to improve their capacities and the environmental and social awareness of male and female farmers, primary societies, the Union Administration and the Board of Directors.