Representatives of the Fair Tracing Team met Krishna Rau, Chairman of the Indian Government’s Coffee Board, in London last Friday. Mr Rau took time between his meetings at the International Coffee Organisation, based only minutes away from UCL in Bloomsbury, to talk to Apurba Kundu, Dorothea Kleine and Ian Brown from the Fair Tracing team about the collaboration between the Coffee Board and the project.
Central to our discussion was Fair Tracing’s effort to strike a balance between our desire to assist the more disadvantaged producers and the need to keep this first phase of the project technically and logistically feasible. At the meeting, Mr Rau offered us useful advice on how to strike this balance in the context of the Indian coffee producers.