This guide is a general tool designed to support Governments, private sector, development partners and others interested in facilitating processes to better understand coffee farmers’ incomes and implement collective action to close the living income gaps in coffee regions. It is based on learnings captured in the Coffee Public-Private Task Force during these last five years. This guide provides support on steps that help:

• Identify how private and public investments and actions can complement each other to address their individual and common objectives;
• Tailor the approach to your specific challenges and opportunities.

The guide provides a universally applicable, but locally adaptable, approach to identify, understand and close living income gaps as a pathway towards prosperity of coffee farmers. There are several approaches to understand and close living income gaps, and countries implement different initiatives and policies to improve the income of their coffee farmers. However, this guide does not intend to be exhaustive of all the existing approaches, as it focuses on the learnings from the activities of the Coffee Public-Private Task Force.

This guide can facilitate interaction with key sector stakeholders to:

• Discuss indicative coffee farmer income data and Living Income Gap analyses;
• Conduct workshops with coffee sector stakeholders to discuss vision and strategies for Living and Prosperous Income work for the benefit of coffee farmers;
• Build an initial Living and Prosperous Income strategy, linking with existing coffee sector strategy and policy, and scaling opportunities to public and private sector;
• Identify how private and public investments and actions can complement each other to address their individual and common objectives;
• Identify those issues critical to address with different stakeholders at the regional and/or sector level.

In this sense, the guide serves as a source of inspiration, a checklist, and a toolbox to help facilitate processes towards a living & prosperous income (LPI). It is meant to be used by all interested parties and can be modified to better suit local context.