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Reports

Our 2025 Annual Report is out!

2025 was the first year VOCAL was fully functional. We got our membership up to eight, published two papers – Make it a Double: Key issues brief for VOCAL Network and Percolating Responsible Procurement: A living document for collaboration – and carried out producer consultations around the world.   Read about our year here (in English). […]

Read VOCAL’s response to GCP’s Procurement Principles

After we published our “Percolating Procurement Practices” paper, the Global Coffee Platform (GCP) put out a response together with IDH and Solidaridad in March.  And we have something to say about it. Read our response here. 

VOCAL Coffee Alliance releases first report “Coffee’s Regulatory Blend”

On International Coffee Day, a new alliance of civil society organisations in coffee releases their first report: “Coffee’s Regulatory Blend”. This report points to the benefits of the upcoming regulations in the coffee sectors, and urges the sector to catch up and step up on their compliance, rather than pushing back. It also calls on […]

Coffee CSO coalition urges full EUDR implementation & producer support

In July 2025, The VOCAL Network advocated for Brussels law-makers to ensure an equitable and timely implementation of the EUDR in advance of Wednesday’s vote.Specifically, VOCAL Network and our members called on the European Union to: 1. Resist calls for regulatory reopening or zero-risk classification, which would favor low transparency markets over those working toward […]