Kawa Tamu Estates | RegAg Research Estate

Work with us

Partner on regenerative research and social compliance

The problem

Agricultural advisory in Sub-Saharan Africa is too often theoretical: textbook guidance disconnected from local soils, climate, workers' capacities and economics.

Our offer

Kawa Tamu offers the place, the people and the discipline to test and fine-tune what really works. Our team designs the trial, documents the process and the failures honestly, runs the statistics and delivers a paper with hard evidence, all grounded in commercial feasibility.

Robusta seedlings in the on-site nursery

Estate 1 · Mabale, Kyenjojo

Invested, running and ready to experiment

1,480 mAltitude, Rwenzori foothills

45 minFrom Fort Portal

30 acresOne reference estate in Kyenjojo

1 containerAnnual export target per estate

Now

Land secured. 10 of 30 acres planted. 10 to 20 staff and a nursery on site.

With support

Research blocks on the remaining 20 acres, then scaling through sister farms and a network of nearby smallholders.

Regenerative agriculture

How the estate is farmed

0 from Y4
Low herbicide after establishmentCover cropping replaces herbicide, with zero use from Year 4.
10% area
Environmental buffer zonesAn indigenous tree corridor along the perimeter.
On site
Nutrient recyclingMinimal dependency on bought fertilizer.
20–30%
Indigenous shade tree canopyMore than 10 indigenous tree species on the farm.
Integrated
Enterprise integrationApiary, livestock and plantain alongside the coffee.

Block benchmark: spacing follows the UCDA/MAAIF national coffee sustainability toolkit. Alternative configurations are planted alongside to compare performance.