Improving access to international markets, addressing logistical challenges, enhancing coffee value, and promoting East African brands globally.
Key Points: Innovations in sustainable farming practices, soil health, climate-resilient coffee farming techniques, and sustainable resource use.
Quality assurance, certification processes, specialty coffee grading, and aligning with global standards to elevate the East African coffee brand.
Explore the implications of the European Union's Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) on East African coffee production and exports. Focus on compliance requirements, impact on market access, and how East African producers can turn these challenges into opportunities for sustainable and traceable coffee production.
The role of digital tools in farming, monitoring coffee quality, mobile-based financial solutions, and using data for farm-to-cup transparency.
Focus on trends, quality preferences, and import standards across different global coffee markets, building long term relationships and how the region can meet market demands more effectively.
Presented by experts or representatives from key regions, such as US, Europe, Middle East, South Korea and East Asia.
How DSS is transforming financial transparency, reducing delays, and empowering coffee farmers by direct, timely payments.
Strengthening cooperative structures, improving management, empowering farmers within cooperatives, and supporting direct market access.
Current policies, regulatory challenges, government initiatives to support the coffee sector, and perspectives on future policy improvements.
Building strong coffee brands, national and international marketing strategies, and promoting Kenyan coffee as a premium product.
Accessing investment, innovative financing solutions, credit lines, and financial tools for coffee farmers and cooperatives.
The role of agroforestry in sustainable coffee farming, how carbon sequestration supports eco-friendly coffee production, and its economic benefits.
Adapting coffee farming practices to changing climates, developing resilient coffee varieties, and using carbon-neutral methods.
Empowering women and youth, removing entry barriers, entrepreneurship training, and opportunities in the coffee value chain.
Coffee tourism, farm tours, linking the coffee experience with cultural tourism, and creating experiential marketing for coffee.
Benefits of specialty coffee, unique profiles of East African coffees, niche marketing strategies, and boosting income through quality improvements.
Cooperative-led training, quality improvement, scaling up production, and the impact of cooperatives on coffee supply and quality.