Brazil

In Brazil, agribusiness is one of the activities most flourishing, with the coffee business to be one of the main facilitators. The coffee sector has given, moreover, important contributions to the Brazilian trade balance.

SEBRAE MINAS has, since 2008, a project to meet family farmers Fair Trade and, in 2012, through this initiative, held the 1st Contest Specialty Coffee, in partnership with the Association of Producers Organisations Fair Trade in Brazil (BR Fair), focusing on the promotion of coffee produced on the basis of principles, concepts and criteria of fair trade in the country

According to preliminary data from the monthly statistical report of the International Coffee Organization (ICO), global exports of Arabica totalled 5,216,433 bags of 60 kg in January 2013, which entailed high of 14.88% in comparison with the 4,540,939 bags registered in the same month of 2012, and of 2.58% compared to 5,085,465 bags of December last year.

Considered the second largest global consumer of coffee, surpassed only by the U.S., Brazil presented in 2012 a record high coffee consumption. Very concretely, this beverage consumption per capita in the country was 6.23 kilograms of raw coffee beans or 4.98 pounds of roasted coffee, equivalent to almost 83 liters per Brazilian annually registering There was thus an increase of 2% over the previous year.

Coffee exports from Brazil fell in 2012 by volume and value, to reach 28.2 million bags of 60 pounds and $ 12.8 billion respectively, said the annual Council of Coffee Exporters (Cecafé). The organization pointed out that the revenue from the sale of coffee in international markets was 27.1% lower than in 2011, while the number of bags fell 15.6% in the same comparison.