Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, member of the Nestlé Group’s board of directors told in Berlin that the company would like to double its revenue from coffee sales in the next ten years.

They plan to invest USD 500 million to achieve this goal. Nestlé cooperates with 680,000 small farms in several countries, supporting them with plants and training programmes. The agricultural administrations of 82 countries convened in Berlin – Hungary was represented by secretary of state György Czerván – to discuss matters such as famine, malnourishment and responsible investments. In his lecture Petko Draganov, the deputy secretary general of UNCTAD called attention to a danger: firms investing in the agriculture of developing countries are only producing for export and not for the domestic market. FAO director general José Graziano da Silva pointed out in a discussion that there is enough food for everyone on planet Earth, the problem is people don’t have the money to buy it in poor countries. More than 1 billion people are overweight, while 900 million are starving or malnourished. In the Grüne Woche participants got to see that rich countries have problems too: 25,000 German farmers were demonstrating in front of Angela Merkel’s office, protesting against mass livestock production, the use of pesticides and the price pressure on small farmers.