We know that you care about how the coffee you drink is grown, processed, and sourced. We also know that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for the challenges faced by farms worldwide that produce that coffee. We believe that the best way to help farmers is to invest in them. Improvements to a supply chain do not happen overnight. They take time, dedication, and resources.
That is why we have partnered with Enveritas, an independent nonprofit organization, to assess sustainability issues in our supply chain.
Enveritas works to provide roasters, farmers, consumers, and other stakeholders with a deeper understanding of the most challenging issues facing today’s coffee producers. Enveritas offers roasters like us, who are committed to working toward solutions, an opportunity to help advance meaningful social, environmental, and economic change throughout their supply chains.
How It Works
Every year, they conduct tens of thousands of assessments on coffee farms and with farm workers in more than 25 countries around the world to measure conditions against their sustainability standards. Those standards include social, environmental, and economic issues, including topics like child labor, occupational health and safety, the use of pesticides, water and energy conservation, transparency in pricing, and access to finance. Importantly, the assessments are done at no charge to the farmers.
Enveritas doesn’t give individual farms a pass or fail grade. Instead, they aggregate the data to see the bigger picture. Using the data collected during the farm visits and applying statistical tools, they build scorecards that assess the risk of different sustainability issues for all farms in a particular geographic area.
In 2024, Enveritas assessed the traceability and sustainability of 1,420,975 kg of our coffee. They visited the specific farms we partner with as well as conducting statistically significant sampling of farms in our sourcing areas. This provides us with a detailed report that helps us better understand the challenges farmers face.
Read more about Enveritas here: www.enveritas.org and our view on sustainability here www.johanochnystrom.com/sustainability
