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The Sustainable Coffee Program

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10th African Fine Coffee Conference

February 16th 2013, Kampala

Ted van der Put, IDH Program Director

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

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Electronics Tourism Natural Stone Spices

Mainstreaming sustainability through global cooperation

The Sustainable Coffee ProgramPowered by IDH

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

National strategies

Standard alignment

Climate change

Sustainable production

Access to finance

National Sustainability Focus:Local embedding and adaptation of approach

National coffee sector

sustainability issues

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The Sustainable Coffee Program

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 top-10 African origins 2011 (bags and %)

UGANDA; 1839303.33333333; 27%

ETHIOPIA; 1746985;

26%

TOGO; 529823.3333

33334; 8%

TANZANIA; 486368.3333

33334; 7%

CAMEROON; 477836.6666

66667; 7%

KENYA; 461338.3333

33334; 7%

COTE D'IVOIRE;

343611.666666667; 5%

BURUNDI; 185766.6666

66667; 3%

RWANDA; 162780; 2%

GUINEA; 145243.3333

33333; 2% OTHERS; 375970; 6%

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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

• 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

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Bringing SCP to action in Uganda

With compliments to HRNS trip 11/02/2013

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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

Uganda – progress so far

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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

Exporters Growers

Business case sustainable production & role of certification?

How to leverage

fragmented capacity building to cost efficient

scale?

Leadership

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3rd African Coffee Sustainability Forum

• 300 Participants• Over 29 countries• Panels on:

– NGO– Research– Standards and Trade– Roasters– Government and cross cutting

issues

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Key message• 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

• 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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Will Hope be the next ICO ED?

www.idhsustainabletrade.com/coffeePlease contact Jenny Kwan, Program Manager

kwan@idhsustainabletrade.com

Thank you for your attention