CoFET-Retreat to Hilo - BiG iSLAND Hawai'i, USA

CoFET-Retreat to Hilo - BiG iSLAND Hawai'i, USA

Join us for a chill retreat in Hilo, Hawaii on the Big Island - full of fun, exploration, and good vibes!

By CoFET-Retreat (Oahu iSLAND) Hawai'i, USA

Date and time

November 3 · 5pm - November 12 · 12pm HST

Location

USDA-ARS Daniel K Inouye U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center

64 Nowelo Street Hilo, HI 96720

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  • 8 days 19 hours

CoFET-Retreat to Hilo - BiG iSLAND Hawai'i, USA

Join us for a fantastic coffee farm experience tour and retreat (CoFET-Retreat) at the USDA-ARS Daniel K Inouye U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center in Hilo, Hawaii, USA from November 3rd - 12th, 2024. The event over all objective is to deepen scientific research development cooperation between AFRICA and Hawai'i on coffee, cocoa, sugarcane, and horticultural commodities of economic significance to rural smallholder farmers and, taking stock of efforts towards climate change ruin amelioration.

BiG iSLAND CoFET-Retreat is holding an industry-wide cup profiling event for smallholder coffees in AFRICA and Hawai'i for niche market traceability, and trade negotiations; and, the segment apex shall be red carpeted by online auction of the emerging exclusively reputational and most competitive smallholder coffee micro-lot collections (150 - 400 coffee tree plot-farm enterprises) to batch roasters around the world.

CoFET-Retreat is all about connecting, learning, and having a great time together. Get ready for exciting activities, insightful workshop training courses in a) Mitigating spread of coffee leaf rust (CLR) in coffee fields and, b) Fine grafting and tissue culture protocols for mass clonal propagation in Arabica coffees.

CoFET-Retreat is designed for farmers, research scientists, universities,farm input suppliers, students (Both undergard and postgraduate levels), angel funders, governments (policy makers and implementers), donors groups.

Make a plan to attend this unforgettable scientifc tour full of memories in the beautiful setting of Hilo, in the Big Island sometimes described as the "Mini Tropical Continent in Pacific". Don't miss out on this opportunity to recharge and network with fellow CoFET-Retreaters.

Invitation letters shall be availed to individual signed-up delegates for visa consular processing purposes.

For help, make inquiries to:

CoFET-Retreat (Oahu iSLAND) Hawai'i,USA

e-mail: info@africacoffeebureau.us

text: + 1 (202) 746 6160

E' Komo Mai!!

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CoFET-Retreat (Oahu iSLAND) Hawai'i, USA

To hasten resilience to the escalating current production constraints, emergence and re-emergence of invasive species and the ruin of climate change to the coffee systems in Africa and Hawaii; the CoFET-Retreat (Oahu iSLAND) Hawai’i, USA in partnership with USDA-ARS Daniel K. Inouye U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, is holding the 2nd CoFET-Retreat in Hilo BiG iSLAND, Hawai’i starting November 03rd – 12th, 2024. The forthcoming Retreat in Hilo will serve to deepen the collaboration between AFRICA and Hawai’i initiated at the Hawai’i Agricultural Research Center, Oahu Island inaugural meetings, June 2022.

The Hilo CoFET-Retreat is set to host;

a) High-stake coffee science colloquium.

b) AFRICA-Hawai’i special development meeting to negotiate and finalize a Joint Research Collaborative Agenda (JRCA) to effect 2 main targets;

  • Technical capacity, trainings and exchange program.
  • Joint research undertakings, collective funding resource mobilization and genetic material exchange.

c) Intensive Farm familiarization and experience tour (farmer field schools and Demonstrations.

d) Joint Hawai’i - AFRICA coffee industry-wide competitive cup profiling experience to spur profitable niche market traceability, private auctions, and specific scientific research purposed fulfillment.

The scientific opinions and papers presented at this retreat, will be published in the CoFET-Retreat Proceedings. At the heart of this year’s retreat, is the critical appraisal on the research progress of 4 key development priorities identified by CoFET-Retreat: 1) coffee leaf rust (CLR), 2) black coffee twig borer (BCTB), 3) coffee berry borer (CBB) and 4) climate change, on a tall order of emerging issues.