New episode alert! 🎙️☕ Our founder, Etelle, unpacks the need for sustainability in the global coffee industry—deforestation, child labor, modern slavery, extreme poverty, transparency, accountability, and how consumers can drive real change. open.spotify.com/episode/1WO7...

☕️🌱Coffee does drive deforestation - but it does not have to. Agroforestry systems — where coffee grows under a canopy of native trees — protect biodiversity, store carbon, and rebuild soil health.

☕🌱 The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) and the UN SDSN created the SDG-Based Coffee Handbook, helping countries design costed national plans that strengthen coffee regions and support the people who grow our coffee.

✊🚨The Red Cup Rebellion began Nov 14 and continues as Starbucks baristas strike for fair wages and respect. Exploitation runs through the entire coffee chain, from growers to stores worldwide. Solidarity with all workers!! ✊ #RedCupRebellion

Have you ever wondered if we can have our coffee and a happy planet too? ☕🌍 Learn more about sustainability, forest protection, and what it takes to build a fair coffee future.👇 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1J...

🎙️Check out the latest podcast featuring our founder and director, Etelle Higonnet! She dives into powerful insights on ethical #coffee, #justice, and what it takes to transform the industry. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckbU...

A hopeful breakthrough for farmers on the frontlines of coffee leaf rust. Researchers have identified 15 natural fungi that prey on and destroy the rust pathogen — no chemicals, no harmful residues, just nature doing what it does best.

Big news for the global coffee community ☕🌎 The White House has officially rolled back broad tariff increases on coffee & other agricultural imports — a major shift after months of uncertainty. dailycoffeenews.com/2025/11/17/w...

♻️ What if your morning coffee did not come with a side of plastic waste? ☕️ OxBarrier’s patented compostable capsule uses an integrated oxygen barrier—keeping coffee fresh without the environmental footprint of plastic pods. 🔗 finance.yahoo.com/news/oxbarri...

At #COP30 World leaders have committed to recognizing 160 million hectares of Indigenous Peoples’ lands, alongside a $1.8 billion pledge from philanthropies & donor nations to support Indigenous Peoples, local communities, & Afro-descendant communities. www.tenurepledge.org/cop30

Check out the SEE Change Podcast, featuring Coffee Watch’s Founder and Director, Etelle Higonnet. Do we really know what goes into our cup of coffee? Give it a listen to learn why reform is urgently needed. ☕🌍 www.seechangemagazine.com/reforming-th...

🚨 As leaders gather in Belém for #COP30, one truth is being overlooked: coffee is deeply woven into the climate and deforestation crisis. 737,000+ hectares of forest cleared inside Brazilian coffee farm boundaries, and over 11 million hectares lost.

Keurig is facing a CAD $1.85 million settlement over allegations that it falsely marketed its plastic coffee pods as “recyclable” ♻️ even though most municipalities could not process them. dailycoffeenews.com/2025/11/12/k... #Greenwashing #Coffee #Keurig #plasticwaste

Before You Celebrate #redcupday , Read This Multiple investigations have uncovered child labour, forced labour, and dangerous working conditions on farms supplying coffee to Starbucks 👇 read more in the thread

COP30 is now in full swing, and there is one issue that still deserves far more attention: coffee-driven deforestation. Coffee Watch’s latest findings reveal 737,000+ hectares of forest cleared inside Brazilian coffee farm boundaries and over 11 million hectares lost.

COP30 is now in full swing, and there is one issue that still deserves far more attention: coffee-driven deforestation. Coffee Watch’s latest findings reveal 737,000+ hectares of forest cleared inside Brazilian coffee farm boundaries and over 11 million hectares lost.

Tropenbos International's new report, Scaling Sustainable Agroforestry highlights how agroforestry systems can transform landscapes. At COP 30, we join the call for agroforestry to be recognized as a core nature-based solution. www.tropenbos.org/resources/ag...

☕ Brazil produces 40% of the world’s coffee— but by 2050, it could lose two-thirds of its Arabica-suitable land if deforestation continues. It’s time to shift to regenerative agroforestry. 🌿 🔗 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...

Between 2001 and 2023, over 11 million hectares of Brazil’s forests — an area the size of Honduras — have been destroyed. Within that, at least 312,000 hectares were cleared directly for coffee farms. 👉 Read the full report: coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...

Brazil has lost 11M hectares of forest to coffee — the 6th largest driver of deforestation worldwide. Now, droughts are cutting rainfall by 50% as the “flying rain” from trees disappears. ☕ No forests, no coffee. 👉 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-... #CoffeeWatch

Agroforestry—growing coffee under shade trees—can store twice as much carbon as monocultures and protect farms from drought. Yet today, less than 1% of Brazil's coffee farms use this climate-resilient approach. It's time to change that. Learn more coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...

Deforestation & #climate also killing coffee producers: other probs w/ the industry are forced labor & child labor Our podcast discussed these w/ the founder of @coffeewatch.bsky.social All these ills are tackled by brands buying from producer coops growing beans w/ #agroforestry like Dean's Beans

Starting in 2026, all coffee entering the EU must be deforestation-free. 🌱 Half of Brazil’s $4.8B coffee exports could be at risk if supply chains can’t prove forests are intact. 👉 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-smell-the-deforestation #EUDR

🚨 Germany’s Dallmayr linked to child & forced labour in Uganda. Coffee Watch filed a #BAFA report under the #LkSG exposing workers paid <$2/day, kids as young as 12 on fields, & abuses at a subsidiary of global coffee trader Neumann Kaffee Gruppe. coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...

🚨 Germany’s Dallmayr linked to child & forced labour in Uganda. Coffee Watch filed a #BAFA report under the #LkSG exposing workers paid <$2/day, kids as young as 12 on fields, & abuses at a subsidiary of global coffee trader Neumann Kaffee Gruppe. coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...

⚠️ EU Environment Ministers are meeting today to debate the #EUDR. 🟢 Together with 86 civil society organisations, including @coffeewatchorg , we’re calling on the EU to stand firm especially with #COP30 approaching. 👉 www.wwf.eu?19893941/Its...

Starbucks named in reports under Germany’s Supply Chain Act over abuses in their coffee supply chains across Brazil, Mexico, and China. Investigations found child and forced labour, poverty wages, and unsafe conditions. coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...

Feels like an easy choice, right? ☕ Corporate profits & greenwashing vs. human rights, fair wages & accountability. Reports filed by Coffee Watch + partners expose child labour in China, €2/day wages in Uganda & forced labour in Brazil. Read more: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...

Behind #Coffee sold by global giants like Starbucks , Nestle and Dallmayr lies a hidden story of exploitation — from #childlabour on Chinese coffee farms to forced labour and #povertywages in Brazil, Mexico, and Uganda. 🔗 Read the full article: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...

🍫🕊️ Nestlé’s coffee supply chain is under fire. Reports were submitted to German authorities citing #childlabour in China and #debtbondage in Brazil, despite its “responsible sourcing” claims. Read more 👉: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...

🚨 Coffee Watch and partners filed reports with German authorities naming Starbucks and Nestle for abuses in #Brazilian, #Mexican, and #Chinese supply chains and Dallmayr for Ugandan supply chains - abuses include #childlabour, #forcedlabour and #poverty wages. 👉 coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...

Across Tikmüüin territory, coffee expansion is displacing communities, & destroying medicinal forests. At #COP30 in Belém, Indigenous leaders will remind the world that protecting forests means protecting people - their stewardship is the strongest defense against #deforestation

Coffee's boom amassed a massive forest debt - and its interest is still growing. Coffee often grows on land already cleared for cattle, benefiting from deforestation that happened long before the first seed was planted. This is known as "deforestation laundering". t.co/6p8hJpBk7m

🚨 BREAKING: A Brazilian coffee farm where 20 workers were rescued from slave-like conditions kept its Starbucks C.A.F.E. Practices certification until 2024 — even after the owner was added to the Dirty List. Read @reporterbrasil.org.br article to learn more: reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/10/farm...

Em 2021, 20 trabalhadores foram resgatados de tabalho escravo na Fazenda Floresta, no Sul da Minas Gerais; novas evidências apontam que, mesmo após o flagrante, propriedade foi mantida no C.A.F.E. Practices, programa de boas práticas da Starbucks reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/10/faze...

Across Brazil’s coffee belt, forests once teeming with life are disappearing. What’s left behind is not just bare land — but broken systems. ☁️ Less rain. 💧 Drier soil. 💸 Unstable harvests.

These forests were not just trees — they were homes. 🌿🏠 New Coffee Watch analysis reveals that from 2001 to 2023, Brazil’s coffee heartland lost more than 11 million hectares of forest. Within that footprint, at least 312,803 hectares were directly cleared for coffee.

#Forests don’t just make oxygen — they make rain. ☁️ “Flying rivers” bring up to 40% of rainfall to #Brazil belt. #Deforestation breaks this cycle, drying the lands that grow our coffee. 🌎 Read more: coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...

Le café brésilien, menacé par la déforestation massive qu’il cause lui-même

In Brasilien zerstört Kaffee seine eigene Lebensgrundlage: den Regen. Warum Kaffee ein kannibalistischer Rohstoff ist. Und wie es auch anders geht.

Café na Prensa ☕️ 📝David Lucena | Café do Brasil desmatou área de duas São Paulo em 25 anos, diz pesquisa

A new report from the nonprofit Coffee Watch says that modern coffee production in Brazil continues to be a significant driver of deforestation, with hundreds of thousands of hectares of native forest cleared inside coffee farm boundaries since 2001...

🚨 New Report: Brazil’s coffee belt lost 11M+ ha of forest, incl. 300K+ cleared for coffee — an area the size of Honduras. 🌳Up to ⅔ of Arabica land could vanish by 2050. 🔗https://coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-smell-the-deforestation/

What if your morning #coffee could help fight #climatechange? Scientists at the University of Sharjah have discovered a way to turn used #coffeegrounds and #recycled #plastic into activated carbon — a material that captures #carbondioxide before it enters the atmosphere.

Across coffee-growing regions, many workers earn as little as $2 to $5 per day, far below a living wage. In Colombia, investigations by Repórter Brasil and Coffee Watch revealed unsafe, overcrowded housing without ventilation, showers, or sanitation.

☕️ Your coffee shouldn’t come with a hidden cost. In Brazil, investigations have revealed workers trafficked and forced to harvest coffee under slavery-like conditions, with farms supplying major global brands, including Starbucks.

Companies like Prefer, Northern Wonder Coffee, and Atomo Coffee are brewing up bean-free blends made from upcycled date pits, lupins, rice, chickpeas, and even sunflower seeds, cutting emissions and land use dramatically. 👉 www.ft.com/content/91d2...

As #droughts & #coffee #leafrust threaten crops, farmers are teaming up with scientists through the BOLERO Project to grow stronger, more resilient plants. Using a technique called grafting, they connect traditional coffee plants with tougher rootstocks that can survive heat, pests, and less water.

In northern Nicaragua, a coffee farm called La Cumplida is showing the world what regenerative agroforestry can look like. More than 240 species now call the farm home - from pollinators to birds thanks to regenerative agroforestry practices that improve soil health & resilience.

🌲No Forests, No Future. Forests are our lifeline - not just for biodiversity or climate, but for people, culture, and our shared future. That is why the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) matters so deeply - and why repeated delays are alarming.