Factsheet Nicafés - Español

Nicaraguan Platform for Sustainable Coffee

In Nicaragua coffee is a sector with a high potential to contribute in the decrease of poverty and improve the economic development. However, to take advantage of that potential it requires transformations to face the great challenges that are looming towards the future: productivity, adaptation to the climate changes, that includes diseases and plague control and access to worldwide markets. Those challenges ought to be solved with the participation and contribution of all actors of the productive chain. In 2017 Nicaraguan Platform for Sustainable Coffee– Nicafe’s was born. With the aim to promote the competitiveness and sustainable development of the sector, based on a common vision.

WHY THE COFFEE SECTOR IS IMPORTANT IN NICARAGUA? 53% Agricultural employment

21% Agricultural GDP 18% National export

2% National GDP

14% National employment

Who are we?

Common vision

Nicafés is composed by 28 unions, exporters, servants of services, educational institutions and non-governmental organisations involved in the coffee sector in Nicaragua.

Until the year 2022 it must to be an organized coffee sector with broad representation of public-private actors, that under a shared vision, throws into speciﬁc actions growth oriented to output, productivity and resilience of coffee crops contributing to competitiveness and sustainability of productive sector, improving living conditions of productors, their families and collaborators.

What we offer To work as a space to dialogue, reﬂection and coordination of joint actions and efforts to ﬁnd answers to the most critical issues of the sector.

Our ﬁrst steps Nicafe’s emerged in 2017 through an alliance of cooperation between the international organizations Rikolto, Rainforest Alliance, the trade union Alianza Nacional de Cafetaleros de Nicaragua (ANCN) – National Alliance of Coffee-Growers of Nicaragua -. After Solidaridad got involved, to promote a space of many actors to boost the sustainable development of coffee sector.

2016

• Rikolto assesses the coffee sector through consultations with visits to organizations and companies that are part of the sector. • Rainforest Alliance headed country opportunities in the sector.

2017

• Nicafés is created through workshops with the whole productive chain, generating a common vision of the sustainability of the coffee sector. • Participation in the 1st World Coffee Producers’ Forum held in Medellin, Colombia in July. • Participation in the Global Coffee Platform (GCP) General Assembly held in Geneva, Switzerland in October. • Ofﬁcial presentation of Nicafés’ vision and mission. At this point it included 28 partners, including organizations and ﬁrms.

2018

2019

• Presentation of Nicafés at an experience-sharing activity with the Colombian Sustainable Trade Platform and at the GCP General Assembly in Bello Horizonte, Brazil, in November. • Presentation of the “Productive Assessment of the Sector” conducted by Nicafés with Rainforest Alliance funds. • Presentation of the study “Analysis of the coffee sector’s background, current legal framework, institutionality and governance” conducted by Nicafés with Rainforest Alliance funds. • Presentation of the Nicafés study “Mapping of coffee value chain actors in Nicaragua,” conducted with Rikolto funds.

• Contribution to a coffee-taster certiﬁcation workshop on January 7-11 in Matagalpa, funded by Rainforest Alliance, Solidaridad, the National Coffee School and FUNICA. • A development proposal for the country’s coffee sector is currently being produced with funds from Solidarity.

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