Meetings & Documents

Technical Presentations

Coffee Year 2017/18

122^nd Session of the International Coffee Council
17-21 September 2018
London, UK

• ICO activities for coffee year 2017/18 – Mr Gerardo Patacconi, ICO Head of Operations
• Coffee Market Situation – Mr José Sette, ICO Executive Director
• The Role of Coffee Futures in Discovering Prices for Latin American Producers – Ms Joanna Gather, Universität Göttingen
• Emerging coffee markets: South and East Asia – Dr Marcela Umaña, ICO Economist
• National quality standards and Maximum Residue Limits – Dr Marcela Umaña, ICO Economist
• Update on collaboration between the ICO and Global Coffee Platform (GCP) – Mr Carlos Brando, GCP
• Update on Memorandum of Understanding between the ICO and African Fine Coffees Association (AFCA) – Mr Ishak Lukenge, AFCA
• Collaboration between the ICO and Sustainable Coffee Challenge – Mr Niels Haak, Conservation International
• World Coffee Conference 2020 – Mr Jagdish Patankar, India Coffee Trust
• Update on use of the Special Fund – Mr René Léon Gómez, PROMECAFÇ Spanish
• A Proposal to Host 123^rdSession of the International Coffee Council in Kenya from 25^th – 29^th March 2019

Thematic Workshop: Women in Coffee
17 September 2018

• ICO report Gender equality in the coffee sector – Dr Christoph Sänger, ICO Senior Economist
• Achieving Gender Equality in Agribusiness through Private Sector Investments– Ms Barbara Rambousek, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Working together for gender equality – Ms Melanie Landthaler, Nestlé Nespresso

Donors Forum
18 September 2018

• Aid for Trade and Support to the Coffee Industry – Mr Simon Padilla, STDF
• GEF-7 Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program – Mr Pascal Martinez, GEF
• Project funding opportunities in the coffee sector: An introduction to AFRICOIN – Mr Abah Ofon, AFREXIMBANK
• Using household methodologies in coffee supply chains: IFAD’s experience in Uganda – Mr Steven Jonkheere, IFAD

Projects Committee
18 September 2018

• Building a sustainable and inclusive coffee sector in Uganda – Dr Denis Seudieu, ICO Chief Economist
• Coffee – Global Adaptation Plan – Mr Michael von Luehrte, Swiss Coffee Trade Association (STDA)
• Identifying coffee sector challenges in selected countries in Asia and Oceania – Dr Denis Seudieu, ICO Chief Economist
• Coffee Promotion in Africa: A Proposal for the Utilisation of Africa’s Portion of the Special Fund – Mr Fred Kawuma, Inter-African Coffee Organization (IACO)

Partnership Fair
19 September 2018

• International Trade Centre (ITC): Partnering for Development results – Mr Rob Skidmore, ITC
• Technical Cooperation Activities of UNIDO – Ms Aurelia Calabro and Mr Andrea de Marco, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
• Global Environment Facility 2018-2022: Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program – Mr Pascal Martinez, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
• Implementing international standards to facilitate safe trade: STDF’s role and experiences – Mr Simon Padilla, Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) – Mr Jonas Dallinger, GIZ
• Cooperation on Coffee – Mr Masaki Wakai, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
• Small-scale producers in the development of coffee value chain partnerships: IFAD’s experience – Mr Steven Jonkheere, International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD)
• Developing National Action Plans for sustainable agricultural commodities – Mr Charlie O’Malley, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• TWIN and TWIN Trading – Richard Anstead, Twin

Statistics Committee
19 September 2018

• Statistics Roundtable – Mr Euan Mann, Complete Commodity Solutions
• Compliance indicators for statistical data provided by ICO Members – Ms Rebecca Pandolph, ICO Chief of Statistics Section

Private Sector Consultative Board
19 September 2018

• European Coffee Contract – Ms Eileen Gordon, European Coffee Federation
• Growing awareness about gender equity in coffee – Ms Kimberly Easson, Partnership for Gender Equity
• How Global Coffee Platform (GCP) enables improving business environments: towards sustainable coffee regions – Mr Carlos Brando, GCP

Promotion and Market Development Committee
19 September 2018

• Colombian Coffee: Differentiation, Differentiation, Differentiation – Mr Juan Esteban Orduz, Colombia
• Colombia, land of diversity – Mr Juan Esteban Orduz, Colombia
• Bringing growers and roasters closer together – Dr Raphael Studer, Algrano

121^st Session of the International Coffee Council
9 to 13 April 2018
Mexico City, Mexico

Opening Ceremony
9 April 2018

• Mr Jorge Armando Narváes Narváes, Undersecretary of Agriculture, SAGARPA – Statement at the Opening Ceremony Spanish
• Mr José Sette, Executive Director, ICO – Statement at the Opening ceremony
  English– French– Portuguese – Spanish

Presentations made at the Council

• Coffee Market Situation, Mr Denis Seudieu, Chief Economist, ICO
• Gender equality in the coffee sector, Mr Christoph Saenger, Senior Economist, ICO
• Development of Coffee Trade Flows, Mr Christoph Saenger, Senior Economist, ICO
• Proposal to support the effective implementation of the ICO’s Five-Year Action Plan

Dissemination Workshop on Coffee Leaf Rust
9 April 2018

• Increasing the resilience of coffee production to leaf rust and other diseases in India and Africa (CFC/ICO/40), Dr Charles Agwanda, Coordinator (Commodities), Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI), Kenya

Dissemination Workshop on Coffee and Health
9 April 2018

• Coffee, Health & Consumption: Reaching Coffee Drinkers, Mr Bill Murray – President and CEO, National Coffee Association, United States
• Health effects of coffee: Physiology and pathology, Dr Astrid Nehlig, Research Director, Association for Science and Information on Coffee (ASIC), France
• The impact of coffee on mental health, Professor Rui Daniel S. Prediger – Experimental Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Projects Committee
10 April 2018

• The Coffee Global Adaptation Plan (C-GAP), C-GAP- Taskforce, Mr Andrea Illy, CEO, illycaffè
• Implementation of the Delta Project, Ms Annette Pensel Global Coffee Platform and Mr Christoph Saenger, Senior Economist, ICO

Statistics Committee
11 April 2018

• Coffee Growing in the PROMECAFE Region, Challenges and Profitability, Mr René León Gómez, Executive Secretary, PROMECAFE
• Ensuring the future of Coffee, the WCR Global Coffee Monitoring Programme (GCMP), Dr Christoph Montagnon, Scientific Director, GCMP, Dr Danielle Knueepple, Director GCMP

Promotion and Market Development Committee
11 April 2018

• PROMECAFE progress report on the use of the money allocated from the Special Fund of the ICO, Mr René León Gómez, Executive Secretary, PROMECAFÉ
• Public relations and coffee promotion activities of All Japan Coffee Association and the present situation of the  Japanese coffee market and the future trend, Mr Keiichi Yokoyama, Chairman, All Japan Coffee Association (AJCA)

Private Sector Consultative Board
11 April 2018

• Initiatives to promote African coffees, Dr Joseph Kimemia, member of the Board of AFCA
• Connect, Empower, ADVANCE, Ms Kellem Emanuele, President of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance (IWCA)
• Sustainable Coffee Challenge, Catalysing the transition to a sustainable coffee sector, Mr Herbert Lust, Conservation International
• 2017 Chinese Coffee Industry Report, CCA, Ms Lucy Fu

For documents pertaining to coffee years 2012/13 and earlier, please contact icodocuments@ico.org