Lecture Description

Biocubacaffè is an open-air laboratory – a sustainability project conceived by the Lavazza Foundation, the Cuban Grupo Agroforestal (GAF) and the Italian Agency for Economic and Cultural Interchange with Cuba (AICEC) that aims to restore Cuban coffee as a local excellence, promote Cuban organic coffee export, and activate internal market considering environmental and social sustainability.

Thanks to the cooperation between Cuban research institutes and Lavazza's expertise on post-harvest techniques, Biocubacaffè presents the innovations and experiments that are carried out in the fields. From the reform of Cuban coffee classification and traceability system, to the introduction of blockchain technology to provide full transparency of the coffee journey, to the implementation and development of fermentations techniques.

Thanks to a public coffee production management system, Cuba features the perfect context where agricultural practices can be improved by coffee research and experiments, thanks to the support of the large public research centers that work closely with local farmers.

The objectives of the project are the complete traceability of the product with blockchain, with the monitoring of over 70 environmental KPIs, and the development, thanks to Cuba's integrated system, of a sensory and productive experimentation laboratory on green coffee to improve coffee quality and value.

Date: Saturday, June 24, 2023
Time: 13:00pm - 14:00pm EET

Location: Lecture Room 1