Sustainability of coffee growers in Latin America and the Caribbean
How prosperous are our coffee communities in Latin America and the Caribbean? How do they connect their National Sustainability Plans with the Sustainable Development Goals, ODS? Find the answers in this space.
Promoting actions for the prosperity of coffee communities in Latin America and the Caribbean through the National Sustainability Plans framed in the Sustainable Development Goals, ODS, is the purpose of this conference to be held during our event "Many voices, one region : Latin America and the Caribbean working together on the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development", at the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations.
In this debate, proceed of the alliance with the World Forum of Coffee Producers, we will talk about the scope of the study Prosperity of Coffee Producers through National Coffee Sustainability Plans framed in the SDGs, developed by the Center for the Sustainable Development at Columbia University, led by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs.
The alternatives and potential resources available to our coffee communities for the promotion of sustainable development, as well as alliances to achieve a more inclusive agricultural sector in the countries of the region, will be central topics to be discussed during the panel. Along this path, the experiences and lessons learned in Colombia from the coffee sector, under the leadership of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, FNC, will be essential as a roadmap.
Date: Tuesday, September 20th.
Time:
- 09:00 a.m. United States (Los Angeles) 🇺🇸
- 10:00 a.m. Costa Rica 🇨🇷, El Salvador 🇸🇻, Honduras 🇭🇳
- 11:00 a.m. Colombia 🇨🇴, Ecuador 🇪🇨, United States (Chicago) 🇺🇸 , Jamaica 🇯🇲, Mexico 🇲🇽, Panama 🇵🇦, Peru 🇵🇪
- 12:00 p.m. Barbados 🇧🇧, Bolivia 🇧🇴, United States (New York) 🇺🇸, Venezuela 🇻🇪, Paraguay 🇵🇾, Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
- 01:00 p.m. Argentina 🇦🇷, Brazil 🇧🇷, Chile 🇨🇱, Uruguay 🇺🇾
- 02:00 p.m. Portugal 🇵🇹
- 03:00 p.m. Spain 🇪🇸
The event will be broadcasted live through this site and our YouTube channel
Program
Welcome words and introduction
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- Sergio Díaz-Granados, Executive President, CAF -development bank of Latin America-
- Juan Esteban Orduz, President World Forum of Coffee Producers
Presentation of the main speaker
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- Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development - Columbia University.
Panel
Moderator: Roberto Vélez-Vallejo, General Manager of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia
Heads of State invited
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- Jamie Coats, CEO Wise Responders, Co-founder Sophia Oxford
- Leonor Zalabata Torres, Ambassador of Colombia to the UN (to be confirmed)
- Alicia Montalvo, Manager of Climate Action and Positive Biodiversity of CAF -Development Bank of Latin America-
- Frederick Kawuma, Secretary-General Emeritus of the Inter-African Coffee Organization (IACO).
Conclusions and closing
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- Christian Asinelli, Corporate Vice President of Strategic Programming of CAF -Development Bank of Latin America-
Participants
Sergio Díaz-Granados
Executive President, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
Sergio Díaz-Granados
Executive President, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
Sergio Díaz-Granados has extensive experience in public and private service, both nationally and internationally, with special emphasis on regional development and integration issues. Before assuming the presidency of CAF, he served as Executive Director for Colombia at the Inter-American Development Bank. He previously held the positions of Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia, Vice Minister of Business Development and President of the Boards of Directors of Bancóldex and ProColombia. He also has been a congressman and chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Colombia’s House of Representatives.
Juan Esteban Orduz
President World Forum of Coffee Producers
Jamie Coats
CEO Wise Responder y cofundador Sophia Oxford
Jamie Coats
CEO Wise Responder y cofundador Sophia Oxford
Christian Asinelli
Corporate Vicepresident of Strategic Programming, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
Christian Asinelli
Corporate Vicepresident of Strategic Programming, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
Christian Asinelli is a political scientist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), has a Master's degree in Public Administration and Policy from the Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA) and postgraduate degrees in Urban Economics (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and in Sociourbana Management (FLACSO). In 2019, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from the National University of San Martín (Argentina).
During the last sixteen years he has been appointed in different roles in the public sector and the international arena: Alternate National Director of the State Modernization Project at the Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2005); Deputy of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (2007-2010); Undersecretary of Evaluation of Projects with External Financing of the Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2011-2014); Corporate Director of Institutional Development of CAF (2014-2017); President of the Fundación Banco Ciudad (2019) and Undersecretary of International Financial Relations for Development, Secretariat of Strategic Affairs, Presidency of the Nation. He was a Fellow of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program (2010), the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies-MIT (2011) and the Singularity University Executive Program (2017). He is the author of the books Buenos Aires: The city we have, the city we want (Buenos Aires, 2009); Modernization of the Argentine State: policies, management and professional scene (Buenos Aires, Edition, 2015) and Financing Development: The role of multilateral banking in Latin America (Buenos Aires, 2021).
Jeffrey Sachs
Director of the Sustainable Development Center, Columbia University.
Jeffrey Sachs
Director of the Sustainable Development Center, Columbia University.
Sachs is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including the escape from extreme poverty, the global battle against human-induced climate change, international debt and financial crises, national economic reforms, and the control of pandemic and epidemic diseases.
Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor, the university’s highest academic rank. Sachs was Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University, and SDG Advocate for UN Secretary General António Guterres. From 2001-18, Sachs served as Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and António Guterres (2017-18).
Sachs has authored and edited numerous books, including three New York Times bestsellers: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011). Other books include To Move the World: JFK’s Quest for Peace (2013), The Age of Sustainable Development (2015), Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair & Sustainable (2017), A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018), The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020), and most recently, Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022).
Sachs is the 2022 recipient of the Tang Prize in Sustainable Development and was the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership. He was twice named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders. Sachs has received 42 honorary doctorates, and his recent awards include the 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development, the Legion of Honor by decree of the President of the Republic of France, and the Order of the Cross from the President of Estonia.
Prior to joining Columbia, Sachs spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, most recently as the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Sachs received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard.
Roberto Vélez-Vallejo
General Manager of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia
Leonor Zalabata Torres
Ambassador of Colombia to the UN
Alicia Montalvo
Gerenta de Acción Climática y Biodiversidad Positiva de CAF
Frederick Kawuma
Secretary-General Emeritus of the Inter-African Coffee Organization (IACO)