Developed to strengthen and build on the existing AAA capacities
The Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program has proven effective at farm level, giving greater resilience to farmers in our value chain. Developed to strengthen and build on the existing AAA capacities, we have engaged with partners to go even further, addressing farm risks to protect farmers and enhance their long-term welfare through the AAA Farmer Future Program.
Developed to strengthen and build on the existing AAA capacities, we have engaged with partners to go even further, addressing farm risks to protect farmers and enhance their long-term welfare through the AAA Farmer Future Program.
Most coffee farmers are subject to high levels of uncertainty, including absence of insurance, no long-term retirement planning, and risks to both crops and prices. We are committed to innovating with relevant experts and partners to play our role in reducing this exposure.
In 2014 we announced the AAA Farmer Future Program, a pioneering new program together with Fairtrade International, the Colombian government and cooperatives in Caldas, to provide the first pension scheme for coffee smallholders. This program will help facilitate the generational transfer of farms from parents to children, ensuring opportunity for young people in coffee producing regions.
Since the pilot scheme’s launch, around 800 farmers have already signed up to the new pension plan and in the long term we are looking to extend this to 40 000 farmers.
• Pilot in the Caldas region
• Already 800 farmers registered
• Ambition to extend to 40,000 farmers
• AAA farmers will receive a contribution of 20% of what they have saved for their retirement by the Colombian government on a yearly basis
• The retirement plan will work through the AAA - Fairtrade coffee bought by Nespresso to the farming communities in Caldas-Aguadas
• Average of coffee farmers in Colombia is 53
• An independent study of sustainability on Colombian coffee farms shows improved performance across farms which are part of the Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program. (CRECE, Centre for Regional Entrepreneurial and Coffee Studies, an independent consulting and research firm based in Colombia)
In 2013 in Australia, we announced a partnership with highly awarded international recycling company TerraCycle. In addition to recycling points at all Nespresso Boutiques nationally, this partnership provides another way for Club Members to recycle their used capsules.
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