Programme

4^th African Coffee Sustainability Forum

Sustainable Coffee Farming as a Business

for African Coffee Farmers:
Learnings, challenges & joint efforts for solutions

12^th February 2014, Hotel Club du Lac Tanganyika,
Bujumbura, Burundi

(Version 10.02.2014)

08.30 – 09.00	Participants registration	AFCA and 4CA
09.00 – 09.20	Welcome and Opening Words of welcome by Harrison Kalua, Chairman AFCA Ted van der Put, Program Director, IDH Francois Nkurunziza, President Inter Cafe Official opening by: Honorable Minister Mrs Odette Kayitesi, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Burundi	Moderated by Melanie Rutten-Suelz, Executive Director, 4C Association
09.20 – 09.40	Key note: “The Kilo Paradigm Reweighed” by Robert W. Nsibirwa Chairman of 4C Association and Board Member of AFCA
9.40 – 10.00	Coffee Break - network and enjoy selected coffees from AFCA members!
10.00 – 11:30	1. Panel Session: Addressing key sustainability issues - the Business Case for Sustainable Coffee Production Input presentation: “A Business Case for Sustainable Coffee Production”: insights and key learnings from studies on Ethiopia and Uganda (35 min) commissioned by The Sustainable Coffee Program (SCP) powered by IDH; by Ted v.d. Put, Program Director, IDH and Paul Stewart, Regional Director, TechnoServe Moderated panel discussion with: Abdullah Bagersh, SA Bagersh PLC, Ethiopia David Muwonge, Nucafé, Uganda Francis Chesang, UCDA, Uganda Dr. Anneke Fermont, Kyagalanyi, Uganda Neil la Croix, Mondelez International Julius Nganga, Utz Certified	Moderated by John Schluter, Café Africa Including questions from the audience
11.30 – 11.45	Report back from workshop on “Sustainable Coffee Farming as a Family Business” Sarah Schach, Board Member of AFCA
11.45 - 13.00	2. Panel Session: Addressing Key Sustainability Issues: Coffee& Climate Change and Gender Input presentation: “The gender amplifier: new potentials in climate change adaptation” by Michael Opitz, Director of Hanns R. Neumann Foundation (20 min) Moderated panel discussion with: Farmer representative Linda Butler, Nestlé Catherine v.d. Wees, Hivos Bridget Carrington, Dormans Coffee Winnie Mwaniki, Rainforest Alliance	Moderated by Dr. Joseph Kimemia, Coffee Research Foundation Including: Questions from the audience
13.00 – 14.30	Networking lunch supported by Sustainable Coffee Program powered by IDH
14.30 – 16.00	Re-cap and instructions for six parallel, interactive working groups on panel topics, supported by presenters and panelists: development of action plans	Facilitator George Watene
16.00 – 16.20	Coffee Break – taste selected coffees from AFCA members!
16.20 – 16.40	Plenary session –  Information sharing on tools: The Standards Map v. 2.0 with new modules by Robert Skidmore, International Trade Center (ITC)
16.40 – 17.10	Plenary session: Report back from working groups	Facilitator
17.10 – 17.30	Closing panel 1)     Summary of the event, main results and lessons learnt 2)     Next steps	AFCA/IDH/4CA/ Café Africa