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African Nations Set Bold Goal to Boost Coffee Production Global Share to 20% by 2030
African Nations Set Bold Goal to Boost Coffee Production Global Share to 20% by 2030
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Currently, Africa contributes only 11% of the world’s coffee output, a sharp decline from 25% in the 1960s. Challenges such as aging farmers, climate change... 22.02.2025, Sputnik Africa
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African coffee-producing nations have set an ambitious target to increase the continent’s share of global coffee production to 20% by 2030.This was a key resolution at the third G25 African Coffee Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where Heads of State, ministers, and industry stakeholders gathered to strategize on transforming the sector.Tanzania’s Minister for Agriculture, Hussein Bashe, called for a shift from raw exports to value-added coffee production.Bashe also urged African nations to increase intra-continental coffee trade from 15% to 50%.Chairman of the Inter-African Coffee Organization and Burundi’s Agriculture Minister, Prosper Dodiko, emphasized the need for urgent action.With coffee being a livelihood for 60 million people in Africa, leaders at the summit stressed the importance of increasing productivity, supporting young farmers, and enhancing local processing to reclaim Africa’s competitive position in the global coffee trade.
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African Nations Set Bold Goal to Boost Coffee Production Global Share to 20% by 2030
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Currently, Africa contributes only 11% of the world’s coffee output, a sharp decline from 25% in the 1960s. Challenges such as aging farmers, climate change, pests, and a lack of value addition have hindered growth despite rising global coffee demand.
African coffee-producing nations have set an ambitious target to increase the continent’s share of global
coffee production to
20% by 2030.
This was a key resolution at the third G25 African Coffee Summit in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania, where Heads of State, ministers, and industry stakeholders gathered to strategize on transforming the sector.
Tanzania’s Minister for Agriculture, Hussein Bashe, called for a shift from raw exports to value-added coffee production.
“It’s crazy that we export coffee worth $3 billion but import coffee products worth $50 billion. We must change from being raw material exporters to value addition and finished goods producers,” he stated.
Bashe also
urged African nations to increase intra-continental coffee trade from
15% to 50%.Chairman of the Inter-African Coffee Organization and
Burundi’s Agriculture Minister, Prosper Dodiko, emphasized the need for urgent action.
“In the 1960s, we produced a quarter of the world’s coffee. Now, we are at just 11 percent. What went wrong?” he asked, highlighting the sector’s decline.
With coffee being a livelihood for 60 million people in Africa, leaders at the summit stressed the importance of increasing productivity, supporting young farmers, and enhancing local processing to reclaim Africa’s competitive position in the global coffee trade.
