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Dutch organisations UTZ Certified and the Douwe Egberts Foundation have launched the Coffee Climate Care project (C3), a three-year multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at establishing adaptation strategies that will make coffee producers more resilient against the impacts of climate change.
negative occurrences
change in the country have the potential to threaten the livelihoods of thousands of smallholders, whose livelihoods depend on coffee farming. “Climate change is a global challenge, therefore, eventually we want
V 10 to apply
the lessons learnt from the C3 project in Vietnam across our worldwide network of coffee
producers,” said Britta Wyss
Bisang, Standards Director at UTZ Certified. “By strengthening our certification
program in adaptation
measures related to climate variability, we can build new capacities at the farmer level that will benefit all actors along the supply chain.” The C3 project will be a collaborative
approach supported by the know-how of several
institutions such as the Vietnamese Coffee Research Institute
ietnam is the world’s largest producer of Robusta coffee, and the second largest supplier
of UTZ certified
coffee after Brazil. The caused by climate
and the Initiative Climate, among many
for Coffee others.
and The
project will start with one pilot group of about 500 producers in Vietnam’s Lam Dong province. “During our time in Vietnam, since
2001, we have seen rainfall patterns become more erratic, with longer and more pronounced drought periods and heavier rainfall in the wet season. In the central highlands, this is creating problems coffee.
In
for farmers in drying their combination
with
on the greenhouse gas emissions and carbon stocks of farms, ii) training and implementation of farmers on adaptation measures, and iii) the consolidation of results into a refined version of the UTZ Certified code of conduct. At the end of 2016, UTZ Certified and the DE Foundation are expecting to present the results, which will serve as the basis for future development of
and greenhouse the
expected temperature increase, we may also see drastic effects on coffee production,” says Don Jansen, Program Manager at the DE Foundation. “Therefore,
innovative of coffee adaptation
strategies are fundamental for assuring the future
producers in
Vietnam and other regions. The C3 project is expected to contribute to the development of such strategies.” The C3 project will have three stages: i)
assessing the climate vulnerability of the pilot group, and collecting relevant data
measurement tools in the coffee supply chain. UTZ Certified started operations
Today more than
adaptation techniques gas emission
in
Vietnam in 2002 and has been promoting its programme in all coffee regions.
27,000
farmers and 44,000 hectares of coffee- producing land in the country are UTZ certified. The requirements
for
achieving the UTZ label are stringent, with farms and businesses being closely monitored by independent third parties on farm management, working conditions, environmental protection and a strict no child labour policy.
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