Tanzania, Arusha: Coffee price risk management course

The English tentative agenda is attached below

L'ordre du jour provisoire en français peut être téléchargé plus bas

Training course organised in relation with programme action "Capacity Transfer to the Region" (1.ESA.E07).

From 20-22 February 2011, the World Bank’s Agricultural Risk Management Team (ARMT) will organize a course on ‘Coffee Price Risk Management’ in Arusha, Tanzania.

The course provides an overview of how to quantify price risk in coffee trading and tools available to potentially manage that risk. The training course is designed as a practical guide for small and medium sized coffee trading businesses and cooperatives so that they are aware of how price risk is created and some of the opportunities they could explore for managing it. Besides, this specific training is aimed at capacity-building organizations working with coffee sector businesses, and also cooperatives and traders who are exporting coffee.

The tentative agenda of the course can be downloaded below. The course has five modules, which are described as follows:

1 – Introduction to Coffee Price Risk Management

2 – Risk Assessment

3 – Physical Risk Management Strategies

4 – Financial Risk Management Strategies (Hedging with Futures and Options)

5 – Implementing Price Risk Management into a Coffee Trading Business

The course is interactive and will involve presentations, exercises, debates and discussions.

In order to attend this event, please kindly send your RSVP to Kirstin Kirchner at kkirchner [at] worldbank [dot] org and Roy Parizat rparizat [at] worldbank [dot] org  by January 17, 2011. Please provide name of each person who would like to attend, their job title, organization name, email address and contact telephone number.

 

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