The course provides an overview of how to quantify price risk in coffee trading and tools available to potentially manage that risk. The training course is designed as a practical guide for small and medium sized coffee trading businesses and cooperatives so that they are aware of how price risk is created and some of the opportunities they could explore for managing it. Besides, this specific training is aimed at capacity-building organizations working with coffee sector businesses, and also cooperatives and traders who are exporting coffee.
Tanzania, Arusha: Coffee price risk management course
From 20-22 February 2011, the World Bank’s Agricultural Risk Management Team (ARMT) will organize a course on ‘Coffee Price Risk Management’ in Arusha, TanzaniaRead More...
BACKGROUND INFORMATION Fair Trade Coffee
A minimum price of USD$1.26/lb paid to farmers regardless of the state of the market.
Advance payments and access to credit for farmers to help avoid debt while financing the next year's production. Agreement to longer term trading relationships that provide farmers with more secure income to plan for the future and promote sustainable production practices. Read More...
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