Le Conseil du Café-Cacao

The Conseil du Café-Cacao (in English: Coffee and Cocoa Board) is a State body created in 2011. It is reponsible for the regulation, the stabilization, and the development of the coffee and cocoa sector in Ivory Coast, and more precisely:

1. Regulation missions
   • Management of all activities of the Coffee and Cocoa sector
   • Control Coffee and Cocoa quality
   • Approve Coffee and Cocoa sector operators
   • Assist the Government in negotiating international agreements regarding the marketing of coffee and cocoa and to ensure their effective implementation
   • Ensure the financial contribution of the State to Coffee and Cocoa International Organizations
   • Guide development projects aiming at improving the quality of products.
2. STABILIZATION MISSIONS:
   • Make crop forecasts of Coffee and Cocoa
   • Monitor coffee and cocoa physical stocks
   • Fix the purchase price for the Coffee and Cocoa producers and ensure compliance to these prices
   • Organize and control coffee and cocoa domestic market trade
   • Organize and control coffee and cocoa foreign market trade
   • Manage the electronic mail for export sale transactions of coffee and cocoa
   • Implement mechanisms to stabilize prices in favour of Coffee and Cocoa producers
   • Manage Coffee and Cocoa packaging and export operations
   • Establish a compensation system between the purchase price to producers and coffee and cocoa export selling price
   • Produce and disseminate statistics at national and international level
   • Design and execute marketing action programs
3. DEVELOPMENT MISSIONS:
   • Define and implement measures to increase coffee and cocoa productivity
   • Bring technological innovations and scientific research closer to the producers
   • Assist the Government in fighting against the worst forms of child labour in cocoa cultivation
   • Boost improvement in the quality of coffee and cocoa production and packaging
   • Promote coffee and cocoa industrial processing
   • Promote national coffee and cocoa exporters
   • Promote Ivorian coffee and cocoa in the international market
   • Develop, with support and development structures as well as the coffee and cocoa sector partners, conventions in the fields of research, vulgarisation and agricultural council and monitor their implementation
   • Organize Strategic and Health monitoring of the coffee and cocoa sector in order to anticipate issues and challenges of the sector
   • Promote domestic consumption
   • Promote coffee and cocoa sector contribution to rural development
   • Perform any other activities falling within the scope of its missions and powers unless the Government notifies otherwise.