The Sustainable
Coffee Program
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10th African Fine Coffee Conference
February 16th 2013, Kampala
Ted van der Put, IDH Program Director
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Introducing IDH: who we are …
• Public Private Partnership facility
• Convening coalitions of front running business, governments
and other stakeholders
• Designing programs for mainstream impact in
sustainable production and sourcing
• 12-16 commodity chains
• 70 multinational companies as partners
• Co-funding facility until 2015
IDH Program and goals
Cocoa
Tea
Electronics
Tropical Timber
Tourism
Aquaculture
Natural Stone
Soy
Spices
Cotton
The Sustainable Coffee Program
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Mainstreaming sustainability through global cooperation
What is the Sustainable Coffee Program (SCP)?
The Program:
• The leading precompetitive framework for sustainable producer support
programs
• Mainstream and runs until the end of 2015
• Operates throughout the entire value chain and drives both supply &
demand
• Includes all relevant partners and stakeholders on national and
international level:
– The coffee industry
– Trade and export partners
– Governments in producing countries
– Civil society organizations
– Donors and standard setting organizations.
Steering group SCP
1. Program at a glance: Focus Countries
Program focus areas
Standard
alignment
Access to
finance
National
strategies
Sustainable
production
Climate
change
National Sustainability Focus:
National
Sustainability
Focus
Targeted
capacity
building in
coffee sector
Agreed roles
implementers
(inter)nationa
l trade &
standards
National
coffee sector
sustainability
issues
Agreed roles
trade
National
authorities
Local embedding and adaptation of approach
Agreed roles
government
The Sustainable Coffee
Program
In
Implementation
mode
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EU – Africa green coffee trade
• Volume of EU imports of green not-decaffeinated
coffee from African origins* in 2011: 6.7 million
bags, or 13% of EU total (to put this into context: EU
imports from Vietnam in 2011 were 9 million bags,
20% of EU total)
• Value of EU imports of green coffee from African
origins in 2011: EUR 1125 million or 6.4% of EU total
• Source for all data: EU statistical office Eurostat
* Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Congo Democratic
Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya,
Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda,
Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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EU green coffee imports from top10 African origins 2011 (bags and %)
OTHERS, 375,970, 6%
GUINEA, 145,243, 2%
RWANDA, 162,780, 2%
BURUNDI, 185,767, 3%
COTE D'IVOIRE, 343,612,
5%
UGANDA, 1,839,303,
27%
KENYA, 461,338, 7%
CAMEROON, 477,837,
7%
TANZANIA, 486,368, 7%
TOGO, 529,823, 8%
ETHIOPIA, 1,746,985,
26%
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Ethiopia
• Focus areas:
– Sustainable Coffee Working group mandated to produce a
Sustainable Coffee Strategy Report together with the
Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) and other key
stakeholders on traceability and sustainability
– Bring more sustainable coffee through the ECX to the
market
– Increased market access for farmers
– Systemic approach to upgrade coffee production and
exports together with government
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National Program Coordinator: Tesfaye Kenea
Advisor: John Schluter
Uganda
• Focus areas:
– Agree National Sector Strategy with stakeholders
– Working with various existing large public-private
capacity building organizations
– Make the business case and provide support for
private sector towards production and export of
sustainable coffee
– Promote ownership of sustainability at district-level
– National Coordinator: Café Africa
– Advisor: John Schluter
Bringing SCP to action in Uganda
With compliments to HRNS trip 11/02/2013
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Uganda – progress so far
I.
Support for Private Sector towards production and export of
sustainable coffee
• Café Africa contracted as SCP National Coordinator in Uganda
• UCF Sustainable Coffee Breakfast and Consultative meeting December 2012 & quarterly meetings
• Launch of Business Case Study (by Technoserve)
II. Promoting ownership of sustainability in the districts
• Establish Sustainability Sub-Committee of the National Coffee
Platform
• Work with District Steering committees to introduce sustainability at
district level,
• Introduce sustainability as theme into District
Coffee Shows
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Uganda – challenges & opportunities
• Understanding of and involvement in sustainability amongst
all stakeholders is limited. The Business Case Study provides
an opportunity to mobilise stakeholders.
• Introduce components on climate change and finance into the
programme.
• Some of the standards are considering revision of Codes of
Conduct, this provides opportunities for more emphasis on
GAPS and PHH for true sustainability
• Through the National Steering Committee and Districts, there
is an opportunity to place Sustainability more firmly on the
«agenda» in Uganda’s coffee sector.
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Uganda – challenges & opportunities
National and district authorities
Leadership
How to
leverage
fragmented
capacity building
to cost efficient
scale?
Exporters
Growers
Business case sustainable production &
role of certification?
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3rd African Coffee Sustainability Forum
• 300 Participants
• Over 29 countries
• Panels on:
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NGO
Research
Standards and Trade
Roasters
Government and cross cutting
issues
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Key message
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Productivity is a prerequisite for
Sustainability
Need to empower women and
youth as it is evident training them
leads to increased productivity
Research has a big role in providing
new and improved varieties ,
providing technologies to improve
production and processing,
mitigate climate change as well as
leverage resources
There is an increased commitment
from roasters towards
sustainability of the chain with
large financial investments for
instance with the Nescafe Plan and
Coffee Made Happy and working
towards 100% sustainable supply
chains.
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Africa still holds a very small share of
the compliant market with even a
smaller share of that sold as such.
The region needs to be more
involved in the revision of the
standards
Involve farmers in decision making
Farmers to think of sustainability
from a business view
Sustainability requires better
collaboration between all
stakeholders
We need to make use of what we
have and improve access to it
Develop what is missing
Cooperate to a larger extent In the
sector
Next forum in Bujumbura
All presentations available next week at
www.sustainableafricancoffee.org
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Will Hope be the next ICO ED?
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Thank you for your attention
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Please contact Jenny Kwan, Program Manager
kwan@idhsustainabletrade.com