Smallholder Financial Risk Management: Approaches & Partnerships| Panel | Green Coffee Summit
Smallholder coffee producers face formidable and unpredictable financial risks, particularly related to market prices.
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This panel discussion featuring a donor, a lender, and a farmer support organization offers approaches that smallholder organizations, coffee buyers, lenders, and others can take to address smallholders' financial/market risk to improve smallholder resilience and incomes while securing reliable, quality supply for buyers.
About the Panel
Melissa Schweisguth, Market Systems Specialist, Bureau of Resilience and Food Security, USAID
Melissa provides technical expertise, services (e.g., research, analyses) and capacity building on inclusive market systems design, implementation, and integrating market systems approaches into programming. She has 16+ years of experience across implementation (analysis, design, implementation, evaluation), chocolate and food companies, corporate sustainability, ethical trade and research in Sub-Saharan Africa, SE Asia, LAC and ECCA.
Charles Kainkwa, Technical Services Coordinator, Farm Africa
Charles Kainkwa is Technical Services Coordinator with education background in Environmental Sciences and track record of successfully designing and managing coffee projects in East Africa. For more than seven years, he has managed projects that support coffee producer organizations in market system development, business development services, certification, risk management, gender and youth inclusion. Charles is managing Farm Africa`s project focusing on provision of Price Risk Management Workshops to 30 coffee producer organizations in Rwanda, Uganda and DRC. Subsequently, Root Capital has facilitated access to working capital to trained producer organizations that have been de-risked as a result of the PRM.
Yolirruth Nuñez, Senior Social Performance and Capacity Building Officer, Oikocredit
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