How d’you like your cawfee?
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) released in October 2019 an extensive report detailing the many ways in which the current structure of the global coffee industry is inherently unfair for the people who grow the beans for our latte. We teamed up with them to visualise some of the key messages.
Materials:
Full report: Ensuring Economic Viability and Sustainability of Coffee Production
Consumer recommendations including petition
Video explaining the coffee sustainability crisis
Op-ed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs
Cost of a Cup of Coffee
Ensuring Economic Viability and Sustainability of Coffee Production, page 14.
Source for average price of coffee in New York: UBS, Bucks for beans: coffee prices from São Paulo to Shanghai.
Increase in Proportion of Coffee Producers Living in Extreme Poverty
Ensuring Economic Viability and Sustainability of Coffee Production, page 34.
Source: International Coffee Organization, “Survey on the impact of low coffee prices on exporting countries: International Coffee Council 124th Session, held at Nairobi, Kenya, from 25 to 29 March 2019,” (March 4, 2019).
Farmers only Receive the Premium Price for a Fraction of Sustainably Produced Coffee
Ensuring Economic Viability and Sustainability of Coffee Production, pages 14, 88-9, 92.
The Things Just Half a Cent Would Do …
Ensuring Economic Viability and Sustainability of Coffee Production, page 107.