Organic Vision 2030     

AFCA Conference and Exhibition –  February 2019, Kigali, Rwanda

 Training and fair participation of five coffee cooperatives from DR Congo.                     Coffee Barometer 2018   (S.Panhuysen, J.Pierrot, June 2018) The report says that without significant efforts to adapt production to climate change, increase transparency in the value chain and improve social conditions on farms, global production will not be able to keep pace with rising demand. According to the Barometer, investors are spending billions in coffee company acquisitions and mergers, but coffee production on the ground is under threat from all sides.

Travels, trade fairs and conferences

For CBI Export Coaching programme 2018-2021 for Central America coffee exporters:

• 18 – 20 June 2020: World of Coffee, Warsaw
• 12 -15 February 2020: BioFach, Nuremberg
• For ITC ‘She Trades’ programme:

•  9 – 13 October 2019: Anuga, Cologne
•  3 – 5 December 2019: Food Ingredients Europe, Paris
• 21 – 23 June, 2018: World of Coffee, Amsterdam
• 14 – 17 February, 2018: BioFach, Nuremberg, Germany
• 23 November 2017:   CBI Focus Group ‘Coffee’  with EU importers/traders in Amsterdam
• November 2017: Coffee grading and cupping Training in Kathmandu-Nepal  EU Trade and Private Sector Development Project        
• 29 October 2017: Salon du Chocolat, Paris
• 13 October 2017: Launch of the Nepal National Export Strategies on Coffee and on Tea
• 4 October 2017:  Global Coffee Platform, Geneva, Switzerland       
• 15 June – 5 July 2017:  Coffee Export Marketing training in Kathmandu – EU Trade and Private Sector Development Project
• 15 June 2017: World of Coffee Budapest
• 9 – 13 November 2016:  Sintercafe, Costa Rica:  Presentation on ‘Latest Trends in Certified Coffees’.
• August-December 2016: Developing National Export Strategy for coffee and tea in Nepal with ITC.  
• November-December 2016:  Capacity Building for Vietnam’s Coffee Exporters to the European markets – EU Mutrap Project
• 23 – 30 October 2016:  CBI Value Added Tea Programme Kenya. Nairobi: Closure and Evaluation of the five-year programme. 
• 5 October 2016: Global Coffee Platform, Geneva, Switzerland.Hamburg
• 15 September 2016:   Focus Group ‘Coffee’  with EU importers/traders/retailers
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• 7 – 9  September 2016:  COTECA – International Trade Fair on coffee, tea, cocoa.
• 15 January 2015: Deutscher Kaffeeverband (DKV). I presented on ‘Trends in the Trade of Certified Coffees’ on their New Year’s Congress.
• 20 – 31 January 2015, Kenya: company visits to tea companies, participating in the CBI Tea Programme
• 14 – 28 February 2015 : Travels through Vietnam and Indonesia to visit and coach coffee and tea exporters for the CBI ‘Food Ingredients Asia’ programme
• 23 April 2015  Peer Group ‘Vegetable Oils’ with EU importers/traders
• 19 May 2015  Peer Group ‘Tea’ with EU importers traders.
• 30 June 2015  Peer Group ‘Coffee’  with EU importers/traders
• 5-12 November 2014, I traveled for CBI in Colombia. Subsequently ,
• 12-15 November 2014  I went to Sintercafe (see below).   My activities were dedicated to visiting conferences:
• 11 – 15 October 2014:   I participated in the IFOAM General Assembly and Conference in Istanbul.
• 12 – 15 Nov 2014: At Sintercafe in Costa Rica, I presented on ‘Trends in the Trade of Certified Coffees’
• I was co-writer of the new edition of the Coffee Barometer 2014 (July 2014)
• Since 2009, I am consultant for the project: ‘Promotion of Organic Coffee Production in Brazil’ Tierra Nova Fonds 2009-2016

Trainings

• 15 June – 5 July 2017: Export Marketing training in Kathmandu – EU Trade and Private Sector Development Project
• 3 – 5 October, 2015  Nairobi: training: ‘Trade fair participation’  for tea exporters from Kenya
• 1- 5 September, 2014    Lima, Tarapoto, Satipo:  I conducted three workshops on ‘Opportunidades para Exportadores de Café y Cacao en el Union Europea’  for CBI and Promperu
• 19 – 25 October, 2014   Paris: EXPRO seminar for tea and coffee exporters from Indonesia and Vietnam for CBI
• 24 – 29 November, 2014  Kenya, Nairobi:  BSOD Training for the CBI Kenya Tea programme. Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries.
• 25 – 31 January 2015   Kenia, Nairobi: Company visits in Kericho for the CBI Kenya Tea programme

Market research

• ‘Coffee Barometer 2014.’  Panhuysen, S. & Pierrot, J., March 2014. Coffee Barometer 2014 explores the global and local dimensions of the coffee production system,  by observing how the social, economic and ecological aspects are intertwined. In view of the challenges faced by the coffee sector, market development for sustainable coffee and its procurement by the world’s Top Ten coffee roasters will be discussed. In conclusion, diverse aspects of a sustainable coffee sector have been linked to an agenda that places coffee farmers at the centre of strategies for change.
• ‘Trends in the Trade of Certified Coffees.’ Pierrot, J.; Giovannucci, D; Kasterine, A. –  2011 Statistics on imported volumes of certified coffees. ITC-International Trade Centre, Geneva