Coffee, Commerce, and Communities: Small Scale Agricultural Development in East Africa

Shirin Moayyad, Director of Coffee Purchasing, Peet’s Coffee and Tea, Inc.

David Browning, Senior Vice President, Coffee Initiative, Technoserve

Julie A. Howard, Executive Director, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa

Moderated by:

Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson Center

Coffee, Commerce, and Communities: Small Scale Agricultural Development in East Africa will detail the path from coffee farm to a cup of Peet’s Uzuri African Blend. Driven by a desire to create high quality East African coffee and sustainable economic change, Peet’s Coffee and Technoserve joined forces to train the farmers in identifying and growing quality coffee beans. Three years into the project, 6,000 farmers are earning higher incomes from the nationwide sales of this outstanding coffee.

Named by the farmers, “Uzuri” means excellent and beautiful in Swahili. Uzuri African Blend will be served from 9:00 – 9:30 am for attendees to taste and experience the “beautiful” coffee from Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda.

Friday, February 5th, 2010 ~ 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.

6th Floor Auditorium, Woodrow Wilson Center
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027

Please RSVP acceptances only to page@wilsoncenter.org.