Green Practices

Six pillars of climate-smart agriculture

Every decision at Tarl Eco Farms is guided by environmental stewardship, climate resilience and long-term ecosystem health. Our green practices are embedded across the entire value chain.

Knowledge Smart

  • Integrated learning platform for farmers
  • Practice-adoption network across farms
  • On-farm demonstrations and training

Weather Smart

  • Stress-tolerant coffee varieties
  • Fast-maturing cultivars
  • Economically valuable shade trees

Water Smart

  • Water-runoff harvesting systems
  • On-farm water management protocols
  • Water reservoir installations

Carbon Smart

  • Conservation tillage practices
  • Strategic shade-tree selection
  • Landscape conservation programmes

Energy Smart

  • Efficient management and use of resources
  • Preference for solar-powered solutions
  • Fuel-efficient engines for processing

Nitrogen Smart

  • Intercropping with nitrogen-fixing legumes
  • Site-specific nutrient application
  • Soil-quality improvement programmes
Tarl Eco Farms field operations in Ntungamo

Scale of Operations

Hundreds of hands building Uganda’s finest Robusta

Measuring Impact

Four dimensions of impact

Social Impact

Tarl Eco Farms is committed to measurable improvements in the lives of farming families and workers across the Ntungamo region.

  • School-going girls and boys from participating families remain in school and transition to secondary education
  • Participating farmers and workers gain the ability to seek and pay for healthcare services
  • Households gain access to clean water through water-harvesting techniques
  • Increased smartphone ownership enabling digital access and financial inclusion
1,000+
Farming households participating
200+
Micro farm participants targeted
Clean
Water access via harvesting adoption
100%
School-retention target for participating families
What We Track

Accountability through measurement

We don’t just set targets — we track progress systematically across four measurement areas.

Productivity & Revenues

  • Change in annual gross revenues by type of farm
  • Change in annual revenues earned by participating farmers
  • Change in annual payment to farm workers
  • Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of Tarl Eco Farms

Environment & Biodiversity

  • Evidence of positive change in species diversity
  • Change in soil quality at nucleus and micro farms
  • Range of climate-smart interventions implemented
  • Farmers reporting adoption of climate-smart practices

People

  • Annual increase in number of participating farmers
  • Direct jobs on nucleus and micro farms
  • Indirect jobs created and sustained
  • Children from participating families remaining in school
  • Farmers and workers owning smartphones

Upstream On-Farm Operations

  • Annual production data on nucleus farms
  • Annual production data on micro coffee farms
  • Annual offtake data from outgrowers
  • Processing efficiency metrics at central facility