The Global Coffee Platform builds on a participatory decision making process which follows the intentions to reflect the different interests of the stakeholders of the sector in a broad collaboration of all relevant actors along the supply chain, to enable credible consensus building among the members and to encourage a democratic and transparent discussion within the Global Coffee Platform.
The main element of this governance process is a multi – stakeholder structure which represents all relevant stakeholder groups directly involved in the coffee supply chain, namely producer organizations, coffee trade & industry and civil society organizations.