A YORK event will examine how to ensure food supplies meet demand.
Tea and coffee producers are flying in from Kenya and Tanzania to take part in a workshop at the University of York as part of Fairtrade Fortnight. The event at King’s Manor on Thursday will look at how to ensure food supplies continue to meet future demand.
It has been organised by Building up Resilience in Supply Chains (BURNS), a White Rose Universities Consortium collaboration involving the universities of York, Sheffield and Leeds.
Producers, Lebi Hudson, chief executive officer of the Rungwe Smallholders Tea Growers Association in Tanzania, and Pauline Jepkorir Boit, from the Eastern Produce Sireet Outgrower Empowerment Programme in Kenya, will join the BURNS academic team, processors, logistics experts, retailers, policy makers and others at the event to discuss the issues around agricultural supply chains.
The workshop, which is now fully booked, will take place at King’s Manor, University of York, from 10am to 4pm.
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