May 2013 C&CI • Coffee World • 5
• In Nicaragua, the fungus affected some 40 per cent of the area planted to coffee and production in 2013 is expected to be 10 per cent lower than in 2012. Governments in the region have been contemplating joint action to control the epidemic and help producers deal with the effects of the emergency. They have also asked the international community for support. A short- to medium-term action plan has been developed by different regional and international organisations. The plan has four main components: integrated management, including technical assistance and the establishment of a monitoring and early warning system; a genetic improvement programme to
GMCR makes job cuts
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) has announced a workforce reduction programme affecting a total of 74 full-time production and production support employees in its Castroville, California and Toronto, Ontario facilities. In addition, seasonal layoffs will affect a total of 36 positions in its Toronto and Montreal. “Combined, these actions affect less than 2 per cent of GMCR’s total North American employees as of the end of its first quarter fiscal 2013,” the company said.
Fair Trade
USA launches rust response fund
At the end of March, Fair Trade USA launched a new initiative to help small-scale farmers fight the devastating outbreak of coffee leaf rust in Central America. As highlighted elsewhere in this issue, experts believe the outbreak could reduce coffee production in the region by 30-50 per cent over the next two years. Fair Trade USA will contribute a minimum of US$50,000 to the fund. All of the money collected will be granted
to Fair Trade producer organizations to invest in rust-related projects. Producer groups will apply directly to Fair Trade USA for the funding. Final selections will be made by an external committee including industry members, NGO representatives and agronomy specialists on June 16, 2013.
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breed resistant varieties; assistance to the affected vulnerable population; and institutional capacity development, including policy measures. World Coffee Research (WCR) is working with the Association of Central American Coffee Organizations (PROMECAFE) to find a solution to the problem which, is estimates, has led to the loss of approximately 25 per cent of overall production in the region. An Emergency Coffee Rust Summit was due to be held in Guatemala 18-19 April and is being sponsored by Green Mountain Coffee, Starbucks, USAID, ECOM Trading and the Borlaug Institute at Texas A&M University. The executive director of WCR, Dr
Tim Shilling, said: “The main goal of the summit is to get an action plan together and start getting it implemented so that next year more farmers won’t have to worry about losing their farms and livelihoods because of this disease. In order to do that, we’re bringing together the best scientific expertise on coffee rust to work with Central American governments to determine strategies and best practices to prevent and control future rust epidemics in the short, medium and long terms. We also want to devise collective strategies for mitigating the negative economic impact of roya and support coffee-dependent communities to enable them to cope and recover from this year’s disaster.”
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