Abstract
The coffee sector has come a long way in organising itself and driving sustainability forward. Coffee is regarded as a pioneering commodity where voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) have reached the mainstream (Reinecke et al. 2011). Today, more than one third of the global coffee production meets one or more sustainability standard.
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Robusta coffee is grown in warmer tropical climates, has generally higher yields, with lower production costs, and therefore prices. Robusta is predominantly used in soluble coffee, due to the higher yields compared to Arabica. The growth in Robusta demand is due in part to consumption growth in emerging markets which often start with a lower cost beverage.
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In 2018, CAS renamed to 4C Services GmbH, see https://www.4c-services.org/, last accessed August 2019.
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In January 2018, the Rainforest Alliance merged with UTZ. It is planned that in 2019 a single, new agriculture certification programme built upon the best elements of both existing programmes will be published. Both the Rainforest Alliance and UTZ schemes will continue to run in parallel until the publication of new programme at the end of 2019.
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Verification is a process that tells if a product is compliant with a certain set of requirements, whereas certification is defined as procedure whereby a third party gives a written assurance that a product is compliant with certain standards (ISO Guide 2 1996).
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The DKV is the umbrella organisation for German coffee roasters, traders and soluble coffee producers.
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The SCP was established in 2012 and aimed to increase the export availability of sustainably grown coffee. Through the programme, the livelihood of 4 million smallholder families benefitted from higher yields and quality, improved access to finance, and strategies to mitigate the effects of climate change.
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The National Sustainability Curriculum is a practical field manual for public and private sector stakeholder in a producing country on addressing the most prominent challenges in production through sustainable farming techniques.
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More details about the sustainable sector transformation model, including whitepapers, reports and case studies, can be found at: https://www.iied.org/scaling-sustainability-smallholder-dominated-agricultural-sectors and https://www.newforesight.com/frontrunnersfeatured/, last accessed 31 January 2019.
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In Indonesia, no formal Vision2020 workshop was held but a meeting organised by the coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs.
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For further information, please visit http://gcp-connect.coffee/, last accessed 31 January 2019.
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Martin, F., Kahnert, L., Pensel, A., Vithayathil, J. (2019). The Global Coffee Platform: An Innovative Approach to the Coffee Sector Transformation. In: Schmidt, M., Giovannucci, D., Palekhov, D., Hansmann, B. (eds) Sustainable Global Value Chains. Natural Resource Management in Transition, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14877-9_23
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