Uniting civil society for sustainable coffee

Global collaboration
Independent research
Effective advocacy

We unite civil society to uncover and address the systemic roots of poverty and poor working conditions, deforestation, and reduced biodiversity  in the coffee sector. We inform global coffee policy through rigorous research and strategic collaboration, we elevate underrepresented voices, and we drive meaningful, lasting reform.

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Key Issues

We are committed to addressing issues of accountability, responsibility and transparency in the coffee industry to ensure prosperity and dignity for people, and a healthy and thriving planet.

  • Prosperous & Dignified People Prosperous & Dignified People
  • Healthy & Thriving Environment Healthy & Thriving Environment
  • Responsibility & Transparency Responsibility & Transparency
  • Unfiltered Accountability Unfiltered Accountability
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Where we work

We operate globally

Our 8 member organisations are headquartered in six countries with member representatives located on two continents, and member reach across all coffee producing regions.

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Our publications

Percolating Responsible Procurement: A living document for collaboration

Percolating Responsible Procurement: Coffee producer perspectives is a living document that contributes to the movement for breaking sustainability siloes and driving equitable value and risk distribution for the benefit of producers – especially smallholders – and the planet, through responsible procurement. It offers a first attempt at three imperatives:

  1. To redefine producers’ value contribution in ways that challenge downstream extraction and support a market‑based case for fairer value sharing that ensures farmers earn a living income.
  2. Offer a channel for producers realities and experiences to be represented and to influence how responsible purchasing practices are defined given the ongoing initiatives at retail, brand and trader-level which are co-developed by those industry actors themselves alongside civil society and multistakeholder sector associations.
  3. Call for collaboration with other civil society actors and producer networks who would like to join us in amplifying the producer experience through qualitative consultation and quantitative data.