GCP 2030 COUNTRY GOALS AND COUNTRY PLANS TOWARDS FARMER PROSPERITY VIA MULTISTAKEHOLDER SUSTAINABILITY PLATFORMS

Country goals 2030 and Country Plans were presented at the Global Coffee Platform (GCP) Member Assembly 2022, whose theme was “Aligning for Impact”. The new goals and plans are an inflection point at GCP with country plans that are more focused and detailed and targets that are tangible and measurable.

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The new country plans are different from previous ones. They are anchored in GCP 2.0 goal to achieve transformational change for more than 1 million farmers by 2030. Their strategies focus on farmers’ prosperity and are driven by ambitious goals. A bottom-up approach is used for the development and the delivery of the plans through local structures using a cohesive business framework focused on results and peer-to peer-support across countries. This will ensure moving forward a more focused long-term thinking and planning, execution and measurement, which will make it easier to communicate GCP’s work and value to members and the sector and to facilitate funding.

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The goals and strategies of the six country platforms in GCP’s network are summarized below in the same order they were presented in the Member Assembly.

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BRAZIL

Goal: Increase climate change resilience to ensure farmer prosperity for 120,000 farmers (mostly smallholders) by 2030.

Strategy:

? Technical: Increase the adoption of Regenerative Agriculture Practices;

? Finance: Economic incentives to adopt Regenerative Agriculture practices;

? Market: Ensure access to national and international coffee markets; and

? Organizational Development & Partnerships: to scale impact & mobilize resources.

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INDONESIA

Goal: Close the Living Income gap 10% and ensure market access for 126,000 smallholder coffee farmers by 2030.

Strategy:

? Improve sustainable coffee productivity via implementing Good Agricultural Practices and agroforestry best practices; and ? Ensure the responsible use of agrochemicals to maintain access into international markets.

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VIETNAM

Goal: Ensure the prosperity of 210,000 coffee farmers by 2030, while improving workplace safety and health and conserving the natural resources.

Strategy:

? Achieve optimum yields, increase quality and consistency;

? Decrease production costs, particularly for agrochemicals and ensure MRLs are respected;

? Ensure OHS for coffee growers; and

? Increase climate resilience.

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HONDURAS

Goal: Close the living income gap by 50% for 85,000 Honduran smallholder coffee farmers by 2030.

Strategy:

? Reduce costs by enhancing labor productivity by introducing modern harvesting and processing technologies and correspondent marketing; and

? Improve the farmgate/FOB price ratio by addressing atomization of farmers (dispersion and scale).

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KENYA

Goal: Close the Living Income Gap for 85,000 coffee farmers by 25% by 2030, by doubling the average income per hectare.

Strategy:

? Convening for national alignment and better enabling environment; and

? Improving productivity and farmer resilience.

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UGANDA

Goal: Pilot and scale evidence-based models to reduce the living income gap of 120,000 smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda by 15% by 2030.

Strategy:

? Improve service delivery to farmers through information provision, training and advocacy; and

? Deliver innovative rehabilitation, renovation and climate resiliency services to farmers through Youth Coffee Service Providers.

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Ambitious as these goals are, they set the bar at a much higher level for GCP to move towards coffee growers’ living, prosperous and sustainable income with due concern for social and environmental responsibility in the 6 countries where the GCP network of country platforms are currently active. Positive GCP 2.0 results will set the path to expand to 10 countries.