Welcome to Bariguna

Christoph Hamm is a retired UN official who has worked many years in East Africa - including in South Sudan and Uganda. His wife Fulgencia Kpatikpati Hamm comes from South Sudan. Bariguna is her home village and is located in the border triangle with Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR). The original project idea was to rehabilitate Fulgencia's father's farm, which was abandoned due to the Second Civil War from 1983 to 2005, and to give farmers in the extremely isolated region access to the international market. The third civil war since December 2013 and the still unstable security situation have made this plan impossible. Uganda, the “second home” for Fulgencia’s family, who fled the war South Sudan already in the 90-ies was the obvious alternative for the project, although with a different approach. In Uganda, Bariguna does not start from “square one”, but rather builds on existing production structures.

Another member of the Bariguna team is Stephan Katongole, a German-Ugandan, who was born and raised in Germany and returned to Uganda to manage the family farm. He specializes in a fully organic farming approach and the production of “Fine Robusta” - a washed and a rare “honey processed” Robusta. His farm is located in the Central region of Maska, near Lake Victoria, one of the main Robusta producing regions in Uganda.