NESCAFÉ, the world's favourite coffee, has been building respectful relationships with coffee farmers, their communities and the planet for more than 80 years. We respect farmers by helping them grow healthier, disease-resistant, better quality coffee, which in turn, increases their incomes. We respect communities by creating opportunities for younger generations to continue their farming heritage and not leave for city prospects. And we respect our planet by creating new farming techniques that protect and conserve natural resources.
Please read much more about it in our Nescafe Plan 10 years report https://www.nestle.com/sites/default/files/2021-01/sustainable-journey-ten-years-nescafe-plan-2021-en.pdf as well as https://www.nestle.com/csv/raw-materials/coffee and https://www.nescafe.com
"NESCAFÉ, the world's favourite coffee, has been building respectful relationships with coffee farmers, their communities and the planet for more than 80 years. We respect farmers by helping them grow healthier, disease-resistant, better quality coffee, which in turn, increases their incomes. We respect communities by creating opportunities for younger generations to continue their farming heritage and not leave for city prospects. And we respect our planet by creating new farming techniques that protect and conserve natural resources. We welcome the Sustainable Coffee Challenge ambition to make coffee the world's first fully sustainable agricultural product, look forward to share our commitments and to collaborate on the Action Networks."
By 2020: 70% of total NESCAFÉ coffee supplies to be responsibly sourced
April 20, 2021
In 2020, Nescafé exceeded the 70% responsible sourcing goal, reaching 75% of total supplies.
April 13, 2020: 65% of total NESCAFÉ coffee supplies was responsibly sourced in 2019, on track towards 2020 commitment
April 1, 2019: During 2018, 55% of total NESCAFÉ coffee supplies was responsibly sourced.
By 2020: NESCAFÉ to improve the quality, quantity and sustainability of its coffee supply chain by distributing 220 mio coffee plantlets
April 20. 2021
Since 2010, we have been distributing high-yield, disease-resistant plantlets to farmers under the
Nescafé Plan to increase farm productivity and income. Our 2020 goal was to distribute 220 million plantlets. We exceeded this, achieving 235 million.
Our distribution program covered 15 countries, with particularly notable successes in Colombia, Mexico and Vietnam.
April 13, 2020: 211 million improved coffee plantlets distributed since 2010
April 1, 2019: 21.9 mio plantlets distributed in 2018. Since 2010, cumulative 181.8 mio plantlets distributed.
By 2020: NESCAFÉ to improve coffee farm economics in at least four coffee sourcing countries
April 20, 2021
Farmers participating in NESCAFÉ field programs in four origins achieved coffee farm economics improvements, according to independent Impact Assessment. Mexico and Cote d'Ivoire [higher productivity], Honduras [higher quality] and Vietnam [lower production cost].
April 13, 2020: Farmers participating in NESCAFÉ field programs in three origins achieved coffee farm economics improvements, according to independent Impact Assessment. Mexico and Cote d'Ivoire [higher productivity] and Honduras [higher quality].
April 1, 2019: Improvements in farm economics in two coffee-sourcing countries.
By 2020: NESCAFÉ to monitor and improve labour rights in at least two coffee sourcing countries
April 20, 2021
We have established intensive monitoring, engagement and remediation programs for labor rights in Mexico and the Philippines.
While COVID-19 created some challenges, we continued our programs, working with Certificadora de Productos Sostenibles [CPS] in Mexico and with Catholic Relief Services in the Philippines.
During 2020 in Mexico, our partner Verité carried out renewed labor rights training for our farmers, our agronomist team and our local partner CPS. CPS then surveyed 232 medium-to-large farms [more than 10 hectares] in the states of Chiapas and Veracruz. Out of this total, 19 were found to be hiring minors [those under 18 years old as per Mexican law]. All were formally notified and committed to take immediate corrective actions. These actions were followed up closely by our local team.
As part of the 2020 survey, CPS revisited the four farms that were found to be hiring minors in 2019 and had then agreed to take corrective actions. There was no hiring of minors observed on these four farms.
We believe that we have made significant progress in tackling unacceptable child labor practices on coffee farms in Mexico, and we will continue these efforts until the practices are eradicated.
April 13, 2020: NESCAFÉ worked with two NGOs, Verité and Certificadora de Productos Sustentables
[PPS], in 2019 to improve workers’ labor rights in Mexico, and partnered with coffee certifier 4C Services to conduct a scoping study in the Philippines.
PPS then visited 293 medium to large farms during harvest time to carry out specific labor rights assessments. Nine farms within, or related to, our supply chain were identified with Child Labor risks at the time of the visits. From these nine farms, we requested our suppliers to remove five from our value chain. For the remaining four, corrective actions were undertaken and followed up locally as a condition for these farms to continue supplying us coffee.
In the Philippines, 4C Services identified issues including noncompliance with local minimum wage legislation and a low level of school enrollment. We are assessing the situation and identifying root causes and potential solutions to address and rectify this.
April 15, 2019: Targeted labour rights monitoring program in one coffee sourcing country
