Climate change impacts, such as prolonged droughts, heavier rains, more pests and diseases, and lower yields threaten coffee production worldwide. Smallholder coffee farmers around the globe, who cover 80% of global production, are facing unprecedented challenges. In...

There are lots of stumbling blocks on the way to effective climate action, but many can be avoided through participation, the inclusion of women and equal rights, and farmer empowerment through digital tools. Central to overcoming these challenges is a...

Smallholder farmers constitute by far the largest group of actors in the coffee sector. To make coffee production climate-smart it is crucial to understand the real needs of those millions of men and women, who produce roughly 80 percent of the world's coffee. The...

With the start of 2024, we have transitioned into a new program phase. Within the next five years, we are planning to extend our focus from the farm and community to the landscape level in climate-smart coffee growing, to implement sustainable land-use systems such as...

Debates about the coffee sector tend to focus on the needs of the coffee industry - such as securing supply chains, making coffee production more sustainable, and complying with regulations. However, smallholder farmers are by far the largest group of actors in the...