About the Coffee Sustainability Support Database

A collaborative effort to foster collaboration and informed decision-making in the coffee sector

The future of the global coffee sector faces long standing environmental, social, and economic sustainability challenges. The complexity and scale of these challenges require global coordination. While many successful initiatives exist to address such issues, relevant information is often dispersed, preventing opportunities for global coordination and limiting a greater impact. In order to achieve global impact quickly, value chain actors, development agencies and governments need to respond in consideration of what other actors are doing, and where.

This tool aims to centralize and facilitate the access to information of sustainability projects in coffee producing countries, for:

• Opening opportunities for collaboration, co-investment, and knowledge sharing.
• Deepening,improving and scaling individual sustainability strategies towards a collective approach.
• Acknowledging overlaps, gaps, and opportunities for improvement of future funding decisions.

About Us

The Coffee Sustainability Support Database is a collective effort requested and co-created by members of the ICO’s Coffee Public-Private Task Force (CPPTF) Technical Workstream 3 Importing Countries (TWS3 IMP) and the International Trade Centre (ITC) through its Alliances for Action initiative – the Coffee Guide Network, with co-funding from the European Commission DG INTPA F3, ITC Trust Fund donors, and the CPPTF. This mapping reflects broad public and private sector interest in recognizing current sustainability initiatives in the global coffee value chain.

The ICO’s CPPTF has the overall objective to build consensus between public and private actors on priority issues to be implemented in order to ensure a sustainable and fair global coffee sector, at the local and global levels. To this end, collaborative public-private partnerships aim to achieve complementary specific objectives, including closing the income gap for farmers towards prosperity, enhancing sector-wide transparency of the coffee market, promoting enabling policies, and driving the resilience of coffee communities. In line with these objectives, the CPPTF aims to provide greater visibility to sustainability initiatives in coffee producing countries through this centralized platform, as a public good for the coffee sector.

The Coffee Guide Network, hosted by the International Trade Centre, is a group of individuals from across the global coffee sector advancing and deepening knowledge in the ITC Coffee Guide. Sustainability is among the new chapters of the 4th edition of The Coffee Guide, highlighting both the complexity of the issues as well as different approaches to meeting environmental, social, and economic sustainability in the sector. Within the network, it was decided that a shared understanding of who is doing what and where, towards sustainability objectives, is needed to address these complex challenges as a sector.

About the dataset

0 projects, both public and private initiatives advancing sustainability in 0 coffee producing countries, have been included, for projects that are implemented during the 10-year time horizon from 2017 to 2027. Organizations listed include both funders and implementing partners from government, multilateral, development organizations, private sector, social impact investors, and NGOs.

Although the information contained presented in the Coffee Sustainability Support Database has been carefully and thoughtfully analysed, improvement, revision and cleaning of data is a continuous process. In case you notice any inaccuracies, please Contact Us so that we can maintain this map as a valuable instrument for the sector.