Fireside Chat // Sustainable Coffee Production: Implementing Resilient Practices to Tackle Climate Challenges
- With coffee production in Mexico declining due to drought, how are cooperatives, NGOs, and input providers helping smallholder farmers adopt climate-smart practices and new technologies? What other challenges, such as limited access to finance, are hindering sustainability efforts?
- How pressing is the issue of labor shortages in Mexican coffee production? What technology is being developed to tackle this problem? How will smallholder farmers have access to these innovations?
- To what extent are regenerative and agroforestry practices being implemented in Mexican coffee production, and what results are growers who are practicing these systems seeing?
- What technologies are coffee producers implementing to allow them to sell coffee with certain certifications? How great is the value of these certifications for the consumer, and are the traders facilitating growers’ access to these innovations?
- How are coffee brands and commodity traders adapting their strategies to target the specialty coffee market, and in what ways are they collaborating with producers to reshape their production models to access premium segments?