AsiaReport Says Vietnam’s Robusta Boom Faces a Reckoning
The rise of Vietnam as a coffee-producing powerhouse has been one of the most consequential shifts in the global coffee trade over the past 40 years. What began as a...
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Central HighlandsUK Revives Dormant Anti-Deforestation Plan, Includes Coffee
The UK government announced today that it plans to move forward with mandatory supply chain due diligence rules in Great Britain, requiring businesses to check that certain agricultural goods, including...
BrazilNestlé and ILO Launch Two-Year Project Addressing Farm Labor in Three Key Countries
Nestlé and the International Labour Organization have announced a new two-year project on labor rights in coffee supply chains, focusing on three of the world’s major producing countries: Brazil, Colombia...
AfricaReport: Sustainability Must Be Embedded Into Core Buying Practices to Drive Change
A new “living document” from the civil-society coalition VOCAL Coffee Alliance argues that project-based corporate sustainability is doing little to shift value chain imbalances and promote long-term sustainable coffee...
agroforestryFree Global Library Brings Shade-Grown Coffee Into the Light
A giant spotlight is being turned on shade-grown coffee with this week’s launch of a freely accessible Coffee Agroforestry E-Library. The sprawling database of academic literature on agroforestry in...
agroforestryReport Says Coffee Continues to Erase Brazil’s Forests, Exacerbating Climate Shocks
A new report from the nonprofit Coffee Watch says that modern coffee production in Brazil continues to be a significant driver of deforestation, with hundreds of thousands of hectares...
Coffee WatchVOCAL Alliance Launches, Urges EU Regulatory Compliance Over Pushback
A new consortium of civil society organizations under the acronym VOCAL (Voice of Organizations in Coffee Alliance) launched today, challenging the coffee industry’s prevailing positions on regulatory compliance. In its...