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The coronavirus crisis has made us acutely aware that we are all connected. Within three months of the first report of Covid-19, the disease has become a pandemic. Due in part to shortages in diagnostic capacity and the time required to collect and report data, corona cases have been relatively few in the poorest and most populous countries in the world. But for how long?

In 2016, the initiative organized an international multi-stakeholder conference hosted by FAO in Rome on inclusive and gender-sensitive coffee and cocoa value chains. The initiative aims to continue the cross-fertilization and learning between the coffee and cocoa sector as well as between different coffee and cocoa-producing regions and countries. A series of webinars will explore the overlapping ambitions of actors involved in women’s empowerment in the coffee and cocoa sector.