Nestlé’s largest coffee brand Nescafé moved into 32% of her coffee from farmer in 2024: inside that implement regenerative agricultural practices. This result exceeds the 20%goal that Nescafé had set for 2025. According to the Latest progress report on the sustainability program Nescafé Plan 2030 The result also reflects the strong acceptance, the regenerative agriculture under coffee farms: on the inside wins.
Nescafé supports coffee farmers in the transition to practices such as optimized fertilization, floor covering, mulching and composting with the aim of improving their productivity and reducing costs. These practices also contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (THG) in coffee cultivation. In 2024, the participants achieved: Inside the Nescafé Plan, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 20% to 40% per kilogram of green coffee1.
The challenges that climate change brings with it were clearly noticeable in the coffee sector last year. Coffee low: inside in different countries suffered from difficult weather conditions. This led globally at record prices for both Arabica and Robusta coffee and to a lower availability of coffee. These circumstances underline the urgent need for more resistant coffee supplies.
Axel TouzetHead of the Strategic Division Coffee at Nestlé: “Regenerative agriculture is the focus of the Nescafé Plan and our efforts to strengthen the resistance in our coffee supply chain. The third progress report shows that farmers: inside the advantages of renewable practices are increasingly being aware of and increasing them. This encourages us to continue working with our partners, suppliers and farmers: to continue in the regions from which we get our coffee.
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Since coffee plants age, they naturally become less productive and more susceptible to the effects of climate change, which can further reduce the yields. The renovation and rejuvenation of coffee farms is crucial to maintain their earnings. In 2024, the Nescafé Plan continued its longstanding program to distribute coffee plants and distributed 21 million coffee plants to farmers and farmers to support the income and adaptation to climate changes.
The NESCAFO PLAN currently comprises more than 400,000 hectares of coffee attachments. In 2024, over 1,400 employees train: inside and agronomous: Inside more than 200,000 coffee arms: inside in 16 countries in regenerative agriculture. This expert: Inside, farmers support: Interior actively with topics such as soil erosion and drainage, organic fabric management and optimized fertilization.
In this year’s progress report, Nescafé emphasizes the cooperation with two of its partners: the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) and Technoserve.
Coffee production is a business and farmer: Inside, informed decisions about topics such as coffee types, investments in the farm and equipment must make. Nescafé works with the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) to improve the business competencies of the farmers. The Coffee ++ project trained in the inside of the Farmer Business Schools: You acquire basic knowledge of how you can improve the income and household income through diversification and regenerative agricultural methods while expanding your business and financial skills at the same time.
Encourable data from a study by Technoserve2 Show that regenerative agriculture can increase farmers’ income: significantly increase from coffee inside and at the same time reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The study pursued a bottom-up approach, assumed constant parameters and presented data at the operating level as well as in-depth insights at the country level. It provides a convincing argument for public and private investments: estimates indicate that an annual investment of $ 500 to $ 600 in regenerative agriculture in coffee an annual return of over $ 2 billion in additional income for farmers: inside, up to $ 2.6 billion in additional coffee exports and up to $ 3.5 million Could cause CO₂e savings.
„We are proud to have worked on this study together with Nestlé and the other partners. Through these efforts, we have data that show us that regenerative agriculture is not only good for nature, but also of crucial importance for the livelihood of farmers: inside and the future of the coffee industry is
“, says Paul StewartGlobal coffee officer at Technoserve. “”We hope that this will encourage governments and the private sector to invest the regenerative coffee production worldwide.
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Just as important: The study suggests that this can also result in significant, positive effects on the local economy and positive environmental impact on soil quality, water protection and biodiversity.
With the Nescafé Plan, Nestlé and its partners continue to support farmers: inside, creating a strong and resistant coffee supply chain for the future.
1 were rated most of the origins in which primary data for greenhouse gas emissions were collected in agriculture. This corresponds to more than 30% of our raw coffee procession.
2 Financed by Nescafé, Nespresso, JDE PEETS and the Rudy & Alice Ramsey Foundation. Not with a special reference to the Nescafé Plan.