Good performance in the EAC’s coffee sector despite depressed global prices In June 2013, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) published its annual reports on the coffee sectors in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. According t... 29/07/2013
Ethiopian coffee sector caught by falling global prices Ethiopia is Africa’s largest coffee producer and the fifth largest producer in the world, producing mainly arabica coffee. Production takes place p... 22/07/2013
Developments in cocoa and coffee processing in Cameroon According to online news reports, initiatives are under way in Cameroon to develop processing of locally produced cocoa and coffee. Currently only... 23/06/2013
Constraints on product differentiation in the Pacific A paper presented on third-party certification (TPC) of coffee producers in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has highlighted the opportunities and constraint... 13/06/2013
Report highlights expansion of organic production for local markets in the EAC The International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM) has posted a review of a series of short case studies on the impact of the a... 13/06/2013
Continued expansion in fair-trade sales despite economic downturn Reports from Fairtrade International suggest that “sales of Fairtrade products continue to grow around the world”. The value of sales increased by... 28/04/2013
Promoting African robusta coffee on international markets On January 30 and 31 2013, African and international coffee experts met in Libreville, Gabon, under the auspices of the Agence des Cafés Robusta d’... 06/04/2013
Prospects for arabica coffee prices in 2013 In 2012, arabica coffee lost ‘more than one third of its value’. According to Rabobank, this resulted in arabica coffee prices being ‘down over 52%... 24/02/2013
Rising food prices strengthen focus on promoting major investments in agriculture in Central Africa According to reports on the IRIN website, food price inflation over 2012 in the Republic of Congo saw the cassava retail price rise by 160%, meat p... 24/02/2013
High-quality coffee potential of eastern Congo being explored According to a report from IRIN, a coffee project funded by the UK government’s Food Retail Industry Challenge Fund (FRICH) has been working to dev... 18/02/2013