​Corruption – global patterns and trends (A2i Talk) ​

​A2i Member Exposed Tea-drinking President to Drink Ice Coffee​

​Let us open Zimbabwe and Kenya for your business​

A2i Member Lars Bendix from Farm Mountain Wants the Ugandans to Process the Raw Material Themselves:

​Exposed Tea-drinking President to Drink Ice Coffee​

According to a Danish TV station, A2i member Lars Bendix from Farm Mountain Coffee exposed the normally tea-drinking Ugandan President Museveni to drink coffee. But Lars wants much more than that - he wants the Ugandans to benefit from processing the raw coffee themselves.

“According to Lars Bendix, coffee farmers.. have often sent the raw coffee beans to other countries where they process the raw material and then sell it on for a bigger profit as a finished product. But Lars Bendix makes it possible for the Ugandans to process the raw material themselves.

-If you take a container of raw coffee beans and send it out, you can earn, let’s say, 100 on it. But if you take a container of espresso, you can earn 750 on it, says Lars Bendix, explaining in a delightfully educational way that the profit on the finished espresso is 7.5 times higher than on the raw coffee.”

(From the interview.)

Watch the full story about how Uganda president’s discovered a taste for ice coffee and learn why Lars Bendix chooses to create the finished product in Uganda, increasing the earning potential for Uganda rather than elsewhere, on TV2 Østjylland (sorry, this can only be viewed in Danish).

​Click to see the full interview (in Danish, sorry).​

​Click to read more about the rolling success of the Farm Mountain Ice Coffee.​

Free Virtual A2i Talk:

​Corruption – global patterns and trends​

In our next free, virtual A2i-talk, Professor Emeritus Martin Paldam from the Department of Economics, Aarhus University, will review results based on the data from Transparency International. Since 2005, the data have been explored by the research community. This includes reflections on how the level of corruption differs widely between countries and how the reduction of corruption is a dynamic process that is self-reinforcing once it starts. Will it help reduce corruption in the world if Danish firms are as honest abroad as at home?

Martin’s expert background includes the publication of 10 books and more than 200 articles, covering corruption and development among other topics.

The Virtual A2i Talk is free. Join us Friday, September 12, 9.30-10.15 CEST.

​Please click here to register.​

New business delegations in fall 2025:

​Let us open Zimbabwe and Kenya for your business​

Access2innovation in partnership with The Danish Agriculture & Food Council, Afrika Consultancy, and the Danish Representation in Zimbabwe, is pleased to invite your company to participate in this 2025 delegation trip to Zimbabwe in conjunction with the African-Nordic Foreign Ministers Meeting. This business delegation trip happens September 29 - October 3, 2025.

​Click here to read more about our business delegation trip to Zimbabwe. ​

Also in partnership with the Danish Agriculture & Food Council and the Danish Embassy in Kenya, Access2innovation is pleased to invite your company to participate in the 2025 agribusiness delegation to Kenya. It happens November 10 - 14, 2025.

​Click here to read more about our business delegation trip to Kenya.​

​Africa International Pig Conference​

TANZANIA is set to host the Africa International Pig Conference (APICON) from September 11 to 13, 2025, in Dar es Salaam.

Click here to read more.