Coffee & Sustainability

Coffee is one of the most traded commodities on our planet and provides the livelihood for over 250 million people spread across all continents, countries and religions. Coffee is the fuel of our modern industry, which achieved its breakthrough with industrialization. It is the elixir of poets and thinkers, the drink of revolutionaries and innovators. It is a companion to cultivated communication and often a catalyst in problem solving.

For centuries, it has been a globally unifying and fiercely contested commodity that has caused a lot of suffering, happiness, poverty and wealth at the same time. In 2020, around 170 million sacks of green coffee (60kg) were produced worldwide , of which 96 million (56%) were Arabica and 74 million (43%) were Canephora. Liberica production still amounts to an almost imperceptible 1% of world production and is largely limited to Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.