Commitments
Commitments can be small or large, global or local. No matter the size or scope, commitments help advance sustainability in the coffee sector.
© Conservation International/Lorena Garcia-Bustos
Commitments can be small or large, global or local. No matter the size or scope, commitments help advance sustainability in the coffee sector.
© Conservation International/Lorena Garcia-Bustos
Nearly every major coffee-producing region of the world is under stress. Warming temperatures, drought and changing weather patterns are affecting coffee production and the livelihoods of coffee farmers. Across the globe, companies, governments and organizations are working to address these issues in tangible, meaningful ways. Explore commitments by different actors and geographies.
*Commitments may focus on more than one geographical region.
207 Commitments
From farm to cup
207 Commitments
The year 2030 is a critical year for the coffee industry; climate change impacts are expected to intensify as demand for coffee continues to grow. To make coffee sustainable, everyone has to do their part. The timeline below shows when we anticipate many commitments being achieved.
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Commitments range from transitioning to sustainable coffee sourcing to investing in the renovation of coffee farms, to training farmers on better management practices. The Challenge provides an online space to understand the numerous commitments being made by actors from across the coffee sector. Explore the commitments by topic.
52 Commitments
Gender, Youth + Indigenous People
52 Commitments
Education + Health
50 Commitments
Labor Conditions
81 Commitments
Climate
38 Commitments
Water Access + Conservation
77 Commitments
Forest Conservation + Reforestation
57 Commitments
Technical Assistance
32 Commitments
Renovation
17 Commitments
Access to Inputs
27 Commitments
Access to Finance
6 Commitments
Producer Country Policy
34 Commitments
Standards / Certification
41 Commitments
Sourcing Policies
6 Commitments
Consumer Country Policy
33 Commitments
Consumer Education + Awareness
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4C commits to further support farmers and companies to address the carbon footprint of coffee production and supply...
Target Year 2025
Aiming at increasing sustainable and deforestation-free supply chains through analysis of satellite images and biodiversity databases worldwide, 4C...
Target Year 2021
Global
Diving deeper into specific pressing sustainability issues and aiming at how to better address them, sharing and promoting...
Target Year 2021
Global
We are commited to only purchasing fully traceable coffee, either directly from source ourselves or through proven supply...
Target Year 2025
Global
By 2025, 100% of Own Brand coffee products are certified to an acceptable standard. Standards currently accepted include...
Target Year 2025
Global
By mid-2020, 100 percent of Albertsons Companies’ O Organics® coffee will be certified sustainable according to the Fair...
Target Year 2020
Global
By 2025, the ALDI SOUTH Group* will increase their share of certified** coffee products*** above 75% [originally 50%;...
Target Year 2025
Global, Asia, Australia
The ALDI SOUTH Group is partnering with Olam Food Ingredients’ [“OFI”] coffee business on a four-year project in...
Target Year 2024
North America, Honduras
Source from farms with waste water treatment and initiative to reduce water use.
Target Year ON-GOING
Global
Almacena Platform's public commitment is to increase the income of coffee farmers by at least 10% by connecting...
Target Year 2026
Africa, Ethiopia
1. Improve life conditions, specially in food security of coffee farmers families. 2. Improvement of coffee farmers practices at...
Target Year 2019
North America, Mexico
The Arbor Day Foundation coffee program is committed to preserving and restoring forests through sourcing, roasting, and distributing...
Target Year 2022
South America, Colombia, Peru
Arizona State University commits to improving the sustainability of coffee supply chains through teaching, research, and partnerships.
Target Year 2030
ASU commits to annually involve undergraduate and graduate students in classroom and research projects involving sustainable coffee.
Our NGO Cafe Africa has a 3D approach. We work with coffee producing countries in Africa in order...
Target Year 2025
Africa, Burundi, Cameroon
We will organize cinema evenings on sustainable coffee themes in our coffee shop. The films will be made...
Target Year 2024
Europe, Bulgaria
Our commitment is to give part of the income from the sale of our packaged coffee in our...
Target Year 2021
Europe, Czech Republic, Bulgaria
Barrie House, a long time purchaser of Fair Trade Certified coffee, pledges a full commitment to the Sustainable...
Target Year 2024
Asia, Indonesia, Africa
1. To actively work with universities and colleges, through alliances and partnerships to place equipment and incorporate science-based...
Target Year 2022
North America
By the end of 2021, all Bon Appétit Management Company coffee purchases will be either from a third-party...
Target Year 2021
Global
Boncafé pledges to assist in ensuring the long term well-being of the farm communities, forests and wildlife by...
Target Year ON-GOING
Global
The BCA published its first Sustainability Mission in September 2017, outlining the key objectives that it believes will...
Target Year 2025
Global
Buna Qela applies sustainable livelihood approaches that provide framework for addressing poverty and vulnerability in both development and...
Target Year 2023
Africa, Ethiopia
We commit to source certified coffee for our most growing item ''Raqwa''. The aim is to improve the...
Target Year 2025
Africa, Ethiopia, South America
The program aims to contribute towards food security, clean & sustainable use of energy and environmental conservation. Thus...
Target Year 2023
Africa, Kenya
To grow 10% year after year our sustainable coffee purchases, in order to duplicate our sustainable coffee sourcing...
Target Year 2025
South America, Brazil, Colombia
At CARICO, we will maintain our innovation culture and build on our global first of using blockchain in...
Target Year 2025
Global
CARICO Café will work with and encourage smallholding farmers to develop / return to agro-forestry practices using enhanced...
Target Year 2022
Africa, Uganda
The Coffee Research & Education Center aims its efforts to improving education, research and economic growth locally and...
Target Year 2020
North America, Guatemala, USA
Train coffee farmers in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras on climate smart agriculture.
Target Year 2020
North America, El Salvador, Guatemala
Adapt 10 small coffee growers in Matas de Minas by 2025, according to the Rainforest Alliance sustainable agriculture...
Target Year 2025
South America, Brazil
For our first 2023 sustainable coffee commitment, we have set a goal to have 30% of all coffees...
Target Year 2023
Africa, Ethiopia, North America
For our second 2023 sustainable coffee commitment, we have set a goal to have 70% or more of...
Target Year 2023
Asia, Indonesia, Africa
For our third 2023 sustainable coffee commitment, we have set a goal that 75% of our remaining (not...
Target Year 2023
For our fourth 2023 sustainable coffee commitment, we have set a goal to provide a $0.10 per pound...
Target Year 2023
North America, Nicaragua
We will purchase Smithsonian Certified Bird Friendly coffees and design our program to promote the sale of these...
Target Year 2022
Africa, Ethiopia, North America
We are committed to GHG Reduction: - At farm level by developing and implementing programs to reduce and...
Target Year 2025
Global
Coffee Friend commits to contributing financially to coffee-related foundations and organizations that seek to decrease the impact of...
Target Year 2023
Global
Our company, Combat Project, remains committed to sustainability. Our coffee company seeks to align its operations in accordance...
Target Year 2022
South America, Brazil, Colombia
Community Coffee pledges to help ensure the future of coffee resiliency and availability by being founding members and...
Target Year 2025
100% Responsibly Sourced by 2021
Target Year 2021
By 2026, the Sustainable Coffee Challenge has helped stimulate a 25% increase in demand for sustainable coffee and...
Target Year 2026
Global
By the end of 2025, we expect to be carbon neutral and with the capacity to demonstrate how...
Target Year 2025
South America, Peru, North America
We’re committed to directing $0.01/lb of coffee sold into our Seeds fund [amounting to over $25,000 a year]....
Target Year 2021
Global
A percentage of sales from every pound of Original blend coffee beans sold to Dunkin' franchisees for use...
Target Year 2022
Global
Through a $200,000 donation from Dunkin’, by the end of 2021, One Tree Planted will plant a total...
Target Year 2022
Global, North America, Guatemala
The eco.business Development Facility will launch a one year project to support the sustainability of the coffee sector...
Target Year 2020
North America, El Salvador, Nicaragua
Improve farmer livelihoods by investing in water wells for clean water access in Jinotega, Nicaragua.
Target Year 2020
North America, Nicaragua
Ensure the long-term sustainability of coffee in a changing climate by investing a portion of all coffee purchases...
Target Year 2023
Global
Across four projects' financed by the Urapi Sustainable Land Use Fund, we will promote the sustainable management of...
Target Year 2033
South America, Colombia, Peru
Across four projects' financed by the Urapi Sustainable Land Use Fund, we will empower 13300 smallholders through the...
Target Year 2033
South America, Colombia, Peru
Across four projects' financed by the Urapi Sustainable Land Use Fund, we will create 250 formal jobs across...
Target Year 2033
South America, Colombia, Peru
Across four projects' financed by the Urapi Sustainable Land Use Fund, we will promote the sustainable management of...
Target Year 2033
By 2020 - ECOTIERRA will have raised 50 million USD for the fund Urapi Sustainable Land Use, which...
Target Year 2020
South America, Colombia, Peru
Continued increase of our verified and certified share of coffee according to various sustainability standards TARGET : 70% by...
Target Year 2025
Africa, Ethiopia, South America
Continued investment in solid and long-term business relations and win-win partnerships, by sourcing from cooperatives or local exporters,...
Target Year 2025
Africa, Ethiopia, South America
By 2020, we will source 40% of our volume verified or certified against sustainability standards. By 2025 this...
Target Year 2020
Africa, Ethiopia, South America
Being a Brasílian Origin coffee value chain custodian, we have chines to be Net Zero firm by 2027....
Target Year 2025
South America, Brazil
By the end of 2020, we will create an online campaign focused at promoting sustainable coffee and acknowledging...
Target Year 2021
Europe, Czech Republic
By 2022, Enveritas will apply geospatial machine learning to develop a new AI model to detect deforestation in...
Target Year 2022
Global
Develop an assessment tool for extension service providers measuring internal capacity to reach and benefit women with agricultural...
Target Year 2027
Asia, Indonesia, Vietnam
Time calls for transparency and traceability. As a business, knowing where your products come from and who was...
Target Year 2025
Africa, Uganda, North America
In collaboration with our affiliated producer networks, national offices and industry allies, we will support the transition of...
Target Year 2030
Asia, Indonesia, Vietnam
We believe in being accountable for the impact our work has on the environment. We aim to measure...
Target Year 2024
Global
100% Responsibly Sourced by 2025.
Target Year 2025
Global
At Farmers Trade Coffee Company we are devoted to supporting the future of an industry that supports so...
Target Year 2025
Global
Fundacion COHONDUCAFE contributes to the sustainable production of coffee, through different projects that include strengthening the capacities of...
Target Year 2020
North America, Honduras
Support 500 farmers around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, with training in sustainable agricultural practices that conserve soil and...
Target Year 2023
Africa, Uganda
We commit to use coffee as a means to restore the rainforests of Gorongosa, both planting native rainforest...
Target Year 2023
Africa, Mozambique
From 2020, Holonic will support children of indigenous workers and the surrounding community near the coffee farm where...
Target Year 2023
North America, Panama
The ICO Coffee Public-Private Task Force [CPPTF] will establish Living Income Benchmarks and implement Living-Prosperous Income pilot projects...
Target Year 2030
Global
The ICO Coffee Public-Private Task Force [CPPTF] will commit to establishing public-private partnerships on Resilient Coffee Landscapes Interventions...
Target Year 2030
Global
By looking beyond FOB and providing coffee farm-gate prices, we can explore the ways in which the prices...
Target Year 2025
Global, Asia, Africa
Irrigation Technologies is committed to help coffee farmers grow better with less inputs, and will share with partners...
Target Year 2025
Global, Asia, Africa
Working Towards 100% Responsibly Sourced Coffee & Tea by 2025
Target Year 2025
Asia, Africa, South America
Directly Reaching over 500,000 Coffee & Tea Smallholders by 2025
Target Year 2025
Asia, Africa, South America
Investing 10 million Euros over 5 years to Improve Smallholder Farmers’ Access to Finance
Target Year 2025
Asia, Africa, South America
Kauai Coffee Company believes that strong soil is of utmost importance to sustainability; healthy soil provides coffee with...
Target Year 2023
North America
Responsibly source 100% of our priority inputs.
Target Year ON-GOING
Global
Support regenerative agriculture or conservation on 250K acres of land by 2030. This effort will focus on KDP’s...
Target Year 2030
Global
Responsibly source 100% of our coffee.
Target Year 2020
Global
Sustaining Happy and Easy Lifestyle without any worries to hunger and global climate disaster. Maintaining coffee morning to...
Target Year 2035
Asia, Indonesia
Kroger's Simple Truth brand is committed to sourcing 100% Fair Trade Certified coffee. We are proud to share...
Target Year 2021
Global
Kroger's Private Selection brand is committed to sourcing 100% Fair Trade Certified coffee from international growing regions by...
Target Year Ongoing
Asia, Africa, South America
Increase the demand and supply of traceable, high-quality coffee by sourcing and by increasing consumer knowledge through education...
Target Year 2022
Global
80% of the coffee sourced by LDC will come from RSP-approved or certified supply chains.
Target Year 2027
Asia, Indonesia, India
Support 30,000 coffee farmers globally to improve and diversify their income
Target Year 2027
Asia, Indonesia, India
Support the production of 180,000 MT of low-carbon coffee and plant 1.2 million shade trees in coffee agroforestry...
Target Year 2027
Asia, Indonesia, India
Launch regenerative agriculture and soil restoration across 100,000ha of coffee farmland.
Target Year 2027
Asia, Indonesia, India
LDC will eliminate deforestation and conversion of native vegetation of high conservation value for agricultural purposes from all...
Target Year 2025
Asia, Indonesia, India
By 2025, source 70% of all the coffee purchased from suppliers who agreed to the 2020 version of...
Target Year 2025
Global
Mae Fah Luang Foundation’s mission is to ensure a thriving coexistence between man and the environment through our...
Target Year 2030
Asia, Burma, Thailand
Mae Fah Luang Foundation’s mission is to ensure a thriving coexistence between man and the environment through our...
Target Year 2021
Asia, Burma, Laos
In the coffee-growing region of Honduras in which our commitment is focused, children oftentimes stop attending school around...
Target Year 2021
North America, Honduras
100% of coffee verified as supporting sustainable production by 2020.
Target Year 2020
Global
We want to purchase 100% certified or sustainable verified green coffee by 2022 through yearly increments of 20%....
Target Year 2022
Global
We are committed to double the number of farmers supported by our LIFT multi-services Program in all our...
Target Year 2025
Global, Asia, Vietnam
We aim to renovate 20 million coffee trees in Nicaragua by 2025.
Target Year 2025
North America, Nicaragua
230 ha of forest habitat conserved and/or in process of restoration on coffee farms near Pico Pijol National...
Target Year 2024
North America, Honduras
Conserve and/or restore 170 hectares of forest habitat working with producer farms.
Target Year 2019
Global
Reduce deforestation of high altitude forest due to expanding coffee cultivation surrounding Pico Pijol National Park, thereby helping...
Target Year 2021
North America, Honduras
Mexico’s Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development (SADER) initiated the Plan for the Care of Coffee in October...
Target Year 2019
North America, Mexico
Mi Cafeto will support the climate change adaptation of the "Mi Cafeto Producer Partner" who is most severely...
Target Year 2025
North America, El Salvador
Mi Cafeto will support the climate change adaptation of the "Mi Cafeto Producer Partner" who is most severely...
Target Year 2025
North America, El Salvador
By 2020, 100% of our coffee from individual estates will be responsibly sourced and marketed based on our...
Target Year 2020
Global
In partnership with CARE Canada we will launch a 5 year project to support the sustainability of the...
Target Year 2022
North America, Honduras
Plant 1 Million Trees in Coffee and Tea growing regions by 2025
Target Year 2025
Asia, India, North America
We strive for the best sustainable practices and an ever-growing impact on the local producers and communities. We...
Target Year 2023
Africa, Uganda
Within our FairChain philosophy to add more value in the coffee producing countries, we aim to expand our...
Target Year ON-GOING
Africa, Ethiopia
Develop new high yielding coffee varieties resistant to pests and disease. NAEB has mou with world coffee research...
Target Year 2020
Africa, Rwanda
Source 50% of our coffee through regenerative agriculture methods by 2030
Target Year 2030
100% responsibly sourced coffee supplies by 2025
Target Year 2025
By 2020: 70% of total NESCAFÉ coffee supplies to be responsibly sourced
Target Year 2020
Global
By 2020: NESCAFÉ to improve the quality, quantity and sustainability of its coffee supply chain by distributing 220...
Target Year 2020
Global
By 2020: NESCAFÉ to improve coffee farm economics in at least four coffee sourcing countries
Target Year 2020
Global
By 2020: NESCAFÉ to monitor and improve labour rights in at least two coffee sourcing countries
Target Year 2020
Global
ENSURE THE RESILIENCE OF COFFEE FARMS AND COMMUNITIES by Sourcing towards 100% of our permanent coffees through the AAA...
Target Year 2020
Global
To improve the livelihoods of 300,000 smallholder coffee farmers’ through NKG BLOOM, our sustainable sourcing strategy, by 2030.
Target Year 2030
Asia, Indonesia, Africa
To Reduce on-farm untreated coffee wastewater effluent by 50%.
Target Year 2025
Asia, Indonesia, Laos
To plant 5 million non-coffee trees.
Target Year 2025
Asia, Indonesia, Laos
To save 1 million m3 of water annually in coffee cultivation and processing.
Target Year 2025
Asia, Indonesia, Laos
To enhance the livelihoods of 200,000 coffee households through access to higher value markets and technical assistance to...
Target Year 2025
Asia, Indonesia, Laos
Promote opportunities for vocational training in agriculture to 10,000 children and youth.
Target Year 2025
Asia, Indonesia, Laos
To Reduce greenhouse gas [GHG] emission intensity in our supply chains by 15% through improved land-use management, farming...
Target Year 2025
Asia, Indonesia, Laos
Share our revenue with our growers to incentivize growing practices that benefit the environment and community. Enable every...
Target Year 2020
Global
By 2019, we aim to have implemented a soil improvement program that will help coffee farmers in the...
Target Year 2019
Africa, Cameroon
100% of the Pelican Rouge coffee from our roasting facility will be sustainably certified by 2023 [either RFA,...
Target Year 2023
Asia, Africa, South America
Pelican Rouge Coffee Roasters commits to be net zero, from farm to cup. For scope 1 and 2...
Target Year 2030
Asia, Africa, Europe
100% of the CO2 emissions related to the coffee supply chain of Pelican Rouge Coffee Brand will be...
Target Year 2035
Asia, Africa, Europe
100% use of recyclable packaging at Pelican Rouge by 2025
Target Year 2025
Europe
Philz commits to a 100% Enveritas verification tracking and quantifying social, economic, and agricultural impact across Philz supply...
Target Year 2023
Philz commits to supporting World Coffee Research in their effort to combat the impact of climate change on...
Target Year 2024
Global
Philz commits to investing $25K to support clean water for coffee farming families in our Honduras coffee supply...
Target Year 2021
North America, Honduras
At Progreso Foundation we believe that there are ways to secure an honest income for coffee farmers and...
Target Year 2025
Global
PUR commits to plant 15,5M trees in the period 2021-2025 within coffee landscape and in connection with coffee...
Target Year 2025
Asia, Indonesia, China
PUR Projet plants natives trees with its corporate partners in and around coffee parcels in Latin America, Africa...
Target Year 2020
Asia, Indonesia, Thailand
Rainforest Alliance will improve the Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Agriculture Standard through innovations that: [1] Protect farmers' and workers'...
Target Year 2025
Global
As part of our mission to make sustainable farming the norm, we launch our Sector Partnerships program in...
Target Year 2020
North America, Guatemala, Honduras