our producers

Through LIFT, our sustainability platform, we provide interconnected services for our producers to improve their crop quality and productivity, promoting good agricultural practices and protecting the environment. In terms of environmental impact, our top goals are to:

Make coffee resilient to climate change and to help mitigate its effects.

Preserve natural resources, protecting forests, biodiversity, and water resources.

Reduce the use of agrochemicals, eliminating those that represent a high risk to the environment and communities.

7,037 Water sources protected.

11% + vs. 19-20

As the coffee industry faces tremendous sustainability challenges, it becomes particularly important and necessary to join our efforts through alliances seeking to ensure the long-term permanence of coffee, and to protect and care for our planet. We are proud to foster alliances in which we share a belief that we must give back to Mother Earth more than we take.

Our LIFT results:

8,210 Ha Of forests preserved.

30% + vs. 19-20

3,222 Farms have finalized soil conservation works to protect risk areas.

117% + vs. 19-20

2,670 Wastewater treatment systems improved

64% + vs. 19-20

Our alliances focus on:

Climate Change

Understanding that climate change poses a threat to coffee production, we recognize the importance of connecting stakeholders to focus efforts and resources on implementing initiatives that enable its mitigation and adaptation.

Conservation International (CI):

Since 2020, we have partnered with CI to research and monitor the adoption of natural climate solutions in coffee farms within our supply chain. To date, we have made progress on:

Evaluating LIFT: Of the 18 practices promoted by the program, CI determined that 10 have an impact by increasing carbon sequestration and/or reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These practices include coffee planting and pruning, use of fertilizers, pest management, forest conservation, protection of water resources, use of pulp, and mitigation of risk areas.

Selecting a carbon footprint measurement methodology at farm level: Three tools were evaluated in an effort that spanned over 24,000 hectares and created a forest inventory of 150 farm points. Based on the findings, Cool Farm tool was selected as the most efficient and reliable field method.

In the upcoming crop season, we will measure the baseline for all LIFT producers in Central America, developing respective action plans based on those results.

Conservation International and IDB Invest:

Explore innovative approaches to measure the amount of carbon present in and around coffee farms. This will allow us to incentivize over 2,000 LIFT producers to incorporate climate solutions to reduce emissions on their farms.

+24,000 Ha Mapped

Technoserve:

+1,200 Producers

Paulig-Kesko:

Renew areas with more productive, pest- and disease-resistant coffee varieties and increase the amount of shade.

Strengthen and expand the network of weather stations to create an early warning system that will allow better crop management through timely decisions.

16 Coffee-growing areas monitored

86,000 Plants donated

255 Ha Of coffee farms

Conduct tests on various production systems and areas to determine the productivity of different varieties, sharing recommendations with producers to improve their income.

3 Varieties undergoing trials

12 Experimental plots

Regenerative Agriculture:

Given the limited capacity of our natural resources, we recognize the importance of moving beyond protection to seeking solutions that promote rehabilitation. The concept of regenerative agriculture emerged in 2014 as an approach capable of naturally regenerating soil fertility. By promoting better agricultural practices and diversifying the agroecosystem, the objective is to regenerate systems to keep them naturally productive.

Projects with the Latin American Solidaridad Foundation/ Illycaffe/German Development Bank (DEGInvest)/Lavazza:

Pilot programs with regenerative production systems to validate practices and upscale recommendations. These projects also include incorporating other crops to diversify income.

CIRAD Agricultural Research Center:

Actively participate in the ECOFFEE (Ecological Coffee) initiative, which brings together the coffee sector’s main industries and organizations to progressively reduce the need for pesticides.

Starbucks: Technoserve:

Conduct soil analyses and supply better fertilizers to reduce emissions and increase productivity through an improved nutrition plan.

Conduct soil mapping to improve fertilization recommendations and extend these recommendations to all producers in the area.

+130 Ha

Sampled for baseline diagnosis of pesticide use

+4,000 Ha

Of coffee under regenerative agriculture projects

+11,200 Producers benefited

+4,300 Ha Analyzed

+6,300 Soil analyses conducted

Pilot programs for both Arabica and Robusta coffee

Efficient water consumption and waste management:

Preserving natural resources is a priority action and we are committed to using natural resources efficiently.

Technoserve: Starbucks:

Improve wet mill infrastructure and the design of wastewater treatment systems to transfer technologies to producers and prevent the contamination of water sources.

Provide financing for the construction of eco-friendly wet mills that improve water use efficiency.

Nicaraguan Association of Formulators and Distributors of Agrochemicals (ANIFODA)/Honduran Association of the Agricultural Health and Fertilizer Industry (AHSAFE)/Association of the Agricultural Chemical Guild (AGREQUIMA):

Every year, we actively participate in the Clean Field program, collecting agrochemical containers and taking them to recycling centers. Through this program, we provide our producers with a unique alternative for handling this waste and preventing contamination.

82% Average reduction in water contaminants (BOD and COD)

+90 Wet mills

85,650 Containers collected +12,000 kg Of plastic discarded appropriately +10 Collection events