ICA 2022

ICA 2022

THE ONLY TRADE INSTRUMENT FOR COFFEE DIPLOMACY AND ACTION: GOVERNMENTS WORKING WITH FARMERS, INDUSTRY, CIVIL SOCIETY & DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS

ICO: A UNIQUE INTERNATIONAL COFFEE DIPLOMACY SPACE

To ensure a sustainable future for coffee producers and consumers, it is crucial that not only coffee exporting and importing countries, but also coffee farmers, industry, and civil society, and development and financial partners, cooperate to address the multiple coffee sector challenges and realize growing opportunities to ensure that the global coffee sector becomes truly sustainable, resilient and inclusive.

The new International Coffee Agreement (ICA 2022) reflects the transformation in the global coffee value chain: going beyond the traditional divide between exporting and importing Members, while keeping its neutral intergovernmental status and integrating non-governmental entities. Therefore, setting out a new institutional framework, the ICA 2022, will welcome for the first time the private sector and civil society as affiliate members, including farmers.

THE MAIN MISSION OF THE NEW INTERNATIONAL COFFEE AGREEMENT 2022

The International Coffee Agreement (ICA) is an important instrument for development cooperation and a huge step in developing the global circular coffee economy which should ensure higher incomes and jobs for farmers, less pollution and waste, more transparency, quality and fair pricing in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The ICA 2022, as the only international treaty on coffee, will provide the legal framework for the Organization to:

1 Promote new ways to ensure a sustainable future for local coffee growers and to all engaged in the coffee supply chain.

2 Coordinate strategies between the private sector, civil society and governments to effectively address the sector’s challenges and opportunities.

3 Give a clear and firm mandate to the ICO Secretariat to assist members to realize their coffee sector development strategies and projects and mobilize resources to promote sustainable and responsible production and consumption.

A COMMON APPROACH TO THE SECTOR’S FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Through the ICA 2022, the ICO is given a clear mandate to create the conditions for collective actions under the Coffee Public-Private Task Force, henceforth transformed into a permanent Working Party. The Task Force, which includes stakeholders from every link of the coffee value chain, from farmers and exporters to coffee executives and global leaders, is a unique consensus-building model designed to implement public-private partnerships that jointly address the sector’s challenges, with a specific focus on the livelihoods of coffee farmers and other producers, climate change, and market transparency.

Only a common approach to the sector’s future development can create attainable opportunities – economic, social and also environmental – and pave the way to a sustainable and resilient coffee sector and therefore a more balanced market... and happy and responsible consumers.

ICA 2022

The International Coffee Organization (ICO) is the only intergovernmental organization for coffee, bringing together exporting and importing Governments to tackle the challenges facing the world coffee sector through international cooperation. Its Member Governments represent 97% of world coffee production and 63% of world consumption. www.ico.org

THANKS TO ALL MEMBERS THAT HAVE ENABLED THE ICO TO SERVE THE WORLD COFFEE COMMUNITY FOR THE LAST SIX DECADES

Current Membership under ICA 2007

Exporting Member Countries (42)

Angola; Bolivia (Plurinational State of); Brazil; Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Colombia; Costa Rica; Côte d’Ivoire; Cuba; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ecuador; El Salvador; Ethiopia; Gabon; Ghana; Honduras; India; Indonesia; Kenya; Liberia; Madagascar; Malawi; Mexico; Nepal; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Peru; Philippines; Rwanda; Sierra Leone; Tanzania; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Togo; Venezuela; Vietnam; Yemen; Zambia; Zimbabwe.

Importing Member Countries (7)

European Union: Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malta; Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; & Japan; Norway; Russian Federation; Switzerland; Tunisia; United Kingdom.