Sucafina

Sucafina is a leading sustainable Farm to Roaster coffee company, with a family tradition in commodities that stretches back to 1905. Today, with more than 1,000 employees in 32 countries, the Group is one of the leading coffee trading houses in the world and one of the few focused entirely on coffee. Sucafina’s extensive supply chains span from producer-facing export operations to destination sales offices around the world.

Statement of support

"Sucafina believes that the only way to ensure the future of the coffee industry is by investing today in sustainable practices across the entire supply chain, from farm to cup. We are pleased to join The Sustainable Coffee Challenge and believe that a greater level of transparency, combined with improved measurement of the impact of announced initiatives, will allow the coffee sector to move one step closer to our unified goal: making coffee the world's first sustainably sourced agriculture product." Behrends David, Managing Partner at SUCAFINA SA

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Trader
Partner Since 2018

Our Commitments

Participate in the development of new living income studies, measuring the Living Income Gap in the countries where we operate using living income benchmarks based on Anker Methodology. We are a member of the ICO Benchmark Accelerator contributing to living income benchmarks and have raised our ambition to 8 countries by 2024 instead of 5 by 2025.

Update

June 2023

In 2022 we developed a methodology to determine current farming households' incomes in the countries where we operate in order to measure the living income gaps: comparing current farmer incomes with the available living income benchmark. We trained the internal teams involved in the roll-out plan and we are planning to deploy these Living Income Gap studies in 2023 in: Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, PNG and Vietnam.

Status 50% complete
Target date 2025
Countries targeted Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

Develop our own sustainable sourcing program, aligned with The Global Coffee Platform's Reference Code through an equivalence mechanism, and have 100% of our direct supply certified by 2025

Update

June 2023

Our 2022 volume of certified coffee has increased by 27% since 2021. In 2022, we developed the IMPACT program and launched it in July 2022. 3 supply chains in Brazil have been verified. This implies training farmers, onboarding external verification bodies, conducting internal assessments and an external audit. We have developed methodologies to define baselines to measure progress towards the 5 impact GOALS (reduce our carbon emissions, reduce deforestation, protect Human Rights, target Living Income for the farmers we work with and foster regenerative agriculture). We also started preparation for rolling-out to other origins.

In 2023, we expect the following countries to become Impact verified as well: Vietnam, Indonesia, Colombia, PNG, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi. We are also working towards equivalency with the GCP reference code in 2023.

Status 20% complete
Target date 2025
Countries targeted Brazil, Burundi, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam