For roughly 12.5 million small-scale coffee farmers and their families, coffee can represent food, clean water, medicine, school fees, and better homes. But roughly 80 percent of these families are still living below the poverty line.
Learn MoreWorld coffee consumption increased by over two percent in the last year, coming in at over 164 million bags. Despite this increase in consumption, the small-scale coffee-farming families who grow the majority of the world’s coffee still face significant challenges, including low prices, limited technical knowledge, lack of access to quality supplies, and inability to enter premium markets.