Consultative Forum on Coffee Sector Finance on in September

The International Coffee Organization will hold the Sixth Consultative Forum on Coffee Sector Finance at its headquarters in London on 21 September. The forum will look at challenges such as price volatility, decreased farm yields and profitability, climate change, food safety, and social and environmental concerns. Among the questions posed to attendees will be whether farmers should alone bear the costs of addressing these issues and what can be done to evenly distribute value and responsibility across the coffee value chain. The event will be chaired by Robério Oliveira Silva, Executive Director of the ICO, Juan Esteban Orduz, Chairman of the Consultative Forum on Coffee Sector Finance (Colombia), and Ödön Pallá Sagüés, Vice-Chairman of the Consultative Forum on Coffee Sector Finance, (EU-Spain).