Minister Mukeshimana at the opening of WCPF 2023
Today Rwanda is hosting the two-day Third World Coffee Producers Forum (WCPF 2023), happening at Kigali Convention Centre in Kigali.
While opening the two-day WCPF 2023, Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources Gerardine Mukeshimana urged all stakeholders in the coffee industry to ensure decent living for millions of coffee farmers worldwide.
She said: “It is imperative that we secure increased revenues and enhance welfare for coffee producers. The sustainability of the coffee industry does require that coffee producers and those at the bottom level enjoy shared prosperity”.
“Government of Rwanda promotes the coffee industry by delivering better inputs, replanting coffee trees, enhancing cooperative governance and management procedures, fostering public-private cooperation among stakeholders, and expanding the number of coffee washing stations,” Minister Gerardine Mukeshimana added.
After two years of online gatherings, the World Coffee Producers Forum (WCPF) is returning to an in-person format for 2023, with the event scheduled for Feb. 13-14 at the Kigali Convention Center in Kigali, Rwanda.
The Forum brings together coffee producers from across the globe and provides a unique space to gather and discuss critical issues of common concern to growers, including sustainability, climate change, environment, and prosperity.
The third meeting of the WCPF follows the previous ones in Medellin, Colombia in 2017 and in Campinas, Brazil in 2019. With an impressive group of experts, the focus of the 3rd Forum is to secure the future of a coffee sector where coffee producers are prosperous, and coffee production is sustainable with the creation of National Coffee Sustainability Plans, which will help producing countries design and implement comprehensive coffee policies. (End)