The Background to this Auction
The landscape in the organization of the coffee competitions in Africa has changed quite dramatically in the last 3 or 4 years. Annual cupping competitions have played a role in African coffee for quite some time. These usually ended with an auction where the best coffees were sold to interested buyers
Over the last two years, most of coffee-producing countries did not get the opportunities to run an auction. However, during 2020 and 2021, things changed and individual country coffee associations were able to organize their own competitions.
When the CEPAR decided to run this one, they made an open invitation to all their members in the country to enter their best coffee in the competition.
The CEPAR see the development of this competition alongside this auction as a means for everyone involved in the coffee supply chain to take their own development seriously.
Overall the CEPAR have strategic goals aiming to:
- Supporting and promoting the effective and efficient running of members’ enterprises and the coffee industry at large.
- Sustaining and increasing volume and quality of coffee produced and traded.
- Providing a framework and model on which to build future harvests
In order to make this a credible competition they have worked with International Trade Centre to put all the pieces in place to form a framework that will be sustainable in the future. This means this auction is supported by a national and international jury capable of taking an objective quality assessment of the coffee submitted to the competition.
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