Social Responsibility - Good Coffee, Doing Good

Good Coffee, Doing Good

Starbucks is taking important measures to help improve the lives of coffee farmers and protect the environment where they grow their beans.

We’ve examined many issues that farmers face, including economic challenges and environmental concerns. Starbucks C.A.F.E. Practices is our way of helping coffee farmers address these challenges while sustaining their farms, being sensitive to the environment and meeting the highest-quality coffee standards.

C.A.F.E. Practices, a set of independently verified socially responsible coffee buying guidelines, was developed to help ensure that high-quality coffee is grown and processed in a socially and environmentally responsible manner, an approach that extends throughout our coffee supply chain. It was also designed to be inclusive of all types of suppliers regardless of their size - from small family farms and cooperatives to large estates - including farms that also mill and process their coffee.

C.A.F.E. Practices focuses on four key areas: product quality, economic accountability, social responsibility and environmental leadership.

Certified and Conservation Coffee Purchases

We purchase Fairtrade Certified coffees to promote responsible environmental and economic efforts. Starbucks is one of the largest purchasers of Fairtrade Certified coffees in the world, purchasing approximately 16% of the global supply of Fairtrade Certified coffees. Nearly6% of all of our coffee is Fairtrade Certified. In Australia, we offer two Fairtrade Certified coffees - Cafe Estima Blend and Timor Lorosa'e.

Through our partnership with Conservation International (CI), we are working with coffee producers to promote coffee cultivation methods that protect the biodiversity and improve the livelihood of coffee farmers.

Long term commitment to Coffee Communities

As part of our ongoing commitment to the people and places where Starbucks coffee is grown, we’ve established partnerships with international nonprofit organisations that share our sustainability concerns. We also support community projects to improve the well-being of families in coffee-farming regions.

Between 2004 and 2007, Starbucks has committed over $10.5 million in loans to non-profit organizations who make affordable credit available to coffee farmers so that farmers can invest in their farms and their success into the future. We have also funded several non-profit organizations that provide Fairtrade registered cooperatives with pre-harvest financing and, in the last three years, Starbucks has funded $5.6 million in social development projects in coffee growing communities which involved nearly 150 projects and benefited 600,000 people.

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