Nestlé, the world’s largest food and beverage company has announced that it is piloting a weather insurance program for over 800 smallholder coffee farmers in Indonesia who supply coffee to its Nescafé brand, to help them cope with the impacts of climate change. The insurance scheme will provide financial protection for coffee producers in the […]
‘Sustainable coffee’ currently an illusion – Coffee Barometer 2023
A newly published Coffee Barometer 2023 report produced by Ethos Agriculture has deemed ‘sustainable coffee’ as used in the coffee sector as currently “nothing more than an illusion”. According to the report, the multifaceted challenges prevailing in the coffee sector especially in producing countries make it difficult to recognize the sector as sustainable. According to […]