Portfolio

  • Design, implementation and coordination of different Coffee and Cocoa sustainable Value Chain projects in Asia and Africa.
  • Economic market research/Value Chain Analyses coffee, cocoa and processed fruits (Africa). Two of the publicly available reports can be found  here (specialty coffee Rwanda) and here (processed tropical fruits West-Africa) both comissioned by CBI.
  • Scoping study for a multi-country project funding proposal of the Cocoa and Palm Oil value chains for selected West-African Countries.
  • Advise and support companies on strategy and acitivity implementation to address social issues in the supply chain and improve their monitoring for impact. Topics include child and forced labour and better understanding of, and compliance to the US Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act (TFTEA) and Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP).

Clients include: Rainforest Alliance; International Trade Centre (ITC); European Centre for the promotion of imports from developing countries (CBI); Young Expert Program; different private sector companies from cocoa trade, chocolate and coffee industry