Lang'at Presentation- Sustainable Development and Economic Growth

1. Sustainable Development and Economic Growth
in the African Coffee Sector

3. Introduction
An equitable and thriving coffee sector for women in
Kenya.
To ensure the creation of sustainable linkages for
women in the coffee industry in Kenya and
internationally.
Information and Knowledge dissemination.
Market Access and Logistics.
Connections and Networks.
Access to Finance.
Advocacy.
Digitization of the coffee value chain.
Best Practice sharing and social responsibility.
Association of Women in Coffee Industry is a membership organization in Kenya registered in 2020 whose
main aim is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of the coffee value
chain.
Vision
Mission
Objectives

4. Focus of the presentation
• Global Coffee dynamics
• Gender perspectives in the coffee industry.
• Gap closure.

5. Global Coffee Dynamics
• Central and South America - 60%
• Africa- 12%
• South East Asia – 28%
• $20 Billion
• Europe - 33%
• North America - 20%
• Asia and Oceania – 22%
• Africa - 6%
• Central & South America – 19%
• $180 Billion
Global North (Consumption)
Global South(Production)

6. Global Coffee Production Numbers
In ‘000’ 60kgs bags
Source: Coffee Barometer 2020.
Latin America
104,000
Asia & Oceania
48,347
Africa
18,000

7. Global coffee Consumption Numbers
In ‘000’ 60Kgs Bags
Source: Coffee Barometer 2020
Africa
12,024
Central
America &
Mexico
5,327
North
America
30,580
Asia &
Oceania
36,002
South
America
26,898
Europe
53,372

8. People
• Empirical studies show that women
contribute significantly to the coffee industry
globally , 30% of coffee farm are female
operated and up to 70 % of labour in the
coffee industry are women depending on the
region and is particularly so in Africa.
• Publication by International Coffee
Organisation(2018) on gender equality
indicate that women have significantly lower
access to resources such as land ,credit and
information than men. This results in
significant gender parity in economic
outcomes that include yield ,productivity and
income from the farm
Planet
• It is evident that there is a benefit in closing the
gender gap and there is a role for all to play, research
institutions, Governments ,entrepreneurs , consumers
all working towards fostering empowerment and
achieving gender parity.
Profit
• The link between reduced inequality and improved
economic performance and living conditions has been
widely documented. Gender equality and human
development are positively correlated and most
research concludes that reduced inequalities promote
economic growth(world bank 2012)
Gender Perspectives in the coffee Industry

9. Access to training among coffee farming
households

10. Men's and Women's Role in the Coffee
Supply Chain
Source: PGE 2015

11. Gap Closure
• Establish a coffee fund specifically targeted at women and
youth in Africa.
• Create/establish Traceability from cup to farm for sustainable
production and consumption specifically targeting coffee
produced by women and youth.
• Governments to provide extension officers and trainings to be
structured considering women needs and specifically focusing
on climate change mitigation in the coffee industry
• Implementing the Sustainable Consumption and Production
program. Women and youth to lead the campaign for
domestic consumption supported by government
• Best practice sharing among women in coffee in Africa
• Affirmative action for youth and women in the leadership
across the coffee value chain at the decision tables.

12. Coffee the path to the ‘Africa we want’
Role of Coffee cannot be overemphazised:
• Foreign exchange earner
• Source of employment and family incomes for millions of small holder farmers
• Provides employment directly and indirectly along the coffee value chain
• A source of income and food security
• Main player in poverty eradication.
• The sub-sector is key to the central agricultural role in contributing and realizing
of African Union ‘the Africa we want’ vision 2063
• Provides a platform to swing African to the global arena.
• Inclusive and sustainable development and enhancing the affirmative action on
youth and women is a concrete manifestation of the drive for unity, self-
determination, freedom, progress and collective prosperity.