Coffee Watch
@coffeewatch.bsky.social
A new watchdog dedicated to the proposition that we should make the world a better place with each cup of coffee. From environmental to human rights abuses, we fight to reform the global coffee industry.
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🚨 Coffee Watch and partners filed reports with German authorities naming Starbucks and Nestle for abuses in #Brazilian, #Mexican, and #Chinese supply chains and Dallmayr for Ugandan supply chains - abuses include #childlabour, #forcedlabour and #poverty wages.
👉 coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
👉 coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
☕ Brazil produces 40% of the world’s coffee— but by 2050, it could lose two-thirds of its Arabica-suitable land if deforestation continues.
It’s time to shift to regenerative agroforestry. 🌿
🔗 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
It’s time to shift to regenerative agroforestry. 🌿
🔗 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
☕ Brazil produces 40% of the world’s coffee— but by 2050, it could lose two-thirds of its Arabica-suitable land if deforestation continues.
It’s time to shift to regenerative agroforestry. 🌿
🔗 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
It’s time to shift to regenerative agroforestry. 🌿
🔗 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
Between 2001 and 2023, over 11 million hectares of Brazil’s forests — an area the size of Honduras — have been destroyed. Within that, at least 312,000 hectares were cleared directly for coffee farms.
👉 Read the full report: coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
👉 Read the full report: coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Between 2001 and 2023, over 11 million hectares of Brazil’s forests — an area the size of Honduras — have been destroyed. Within that, at least 312,000 hectares were cleared directly for coffee farms.
👉 Read the full report: coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
👉 Read the full report: coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
Brazil has lost 11M hectares of forest to coffee — the 6th largest driver of deforestation worldwide.
Now, droughts are cutting rainfall by 50% as the “flying rain” from trees disappears.
☕ No forests, no coffee.
👉 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
#CoffeeWatch
Now, droughts are cutting rainfall by 50% as the “flying rain” from trees disappears.
☕ No forests, no coffee.
👉 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
#CoffeeWatch
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Brazil has lost 11M hectares of forest to coffee — the 6th largest driver of deforestation worldwide.
Now, droughts are cutting rainfall by 50% as the “flying rain” from trees disappears.
☕ No forests, no coffee.
👉 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
#CoffeeWatch
Now, droughts are cutting rainfall by 50% as the “flying rain” from trees disappears.
☕ No forests, no coffee.
👉 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
#CoffeeWatch
Agroforestry—growing coffee under shade trees—can store twice as much carbon as monocultures and protect farms from drought.
Yet today, less than 1% of Brazil's coffee farms use this climate-resilient approach. It's time to change that.
Learn more coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
Yet today, less than 1% of Brazil's coffee farms use this climate-resilient approach. It's time to change that.
Learn more coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Agroforestry—growing coffee under shade trees—can store twice as much carbon as monocultures and protect farms from drought.
Yet today, less than 1% of Brazil's coffee farms use this climate-resilient approach. It's time to change that.
Learn more coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
Yet today, less than 1% of Brazil's coffee farms use this climate-resilient approach. It's time to change that.
Learn more coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
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Deforestation & #climate also killing coffee producers: other probs w/ the industry are forced labor & child labor
Our podcast discussed these w/ the founder of @coffeewatch.bsky.social
All these ills are tackled by brands buying from producer coops growing beans w/ #agroforestry like Dean's Beans
Our podcast discussed these w/ the founder of @coffeewatch.bsky.social
All these ills are tackled by brands buying from producer coops growing beans w/ #agroforestry like Dean's Beans
Soaring coffee prices are fueled by deforestation, but solutions exist
Roughly a billion people enjoy coffee daily, and more than 100 million people rely on it for income. However, the coffee industry is the sixth-largest driver of deforestation and is also rife with hum...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Deforestation & #climate also killing coffee producers: other probs w/ the industry are forced labor & child labor
Our podcast discussed these w/ the founder of @coffeewatch.bsky.social
All these ills are tackled by brands buying from producer coops growing beans w/ #agroforestry like Dean's Beans
Our podcast discussed these w/ the founder of @coffeewatch.bsky.social
All these ills are tackled by brands buying from producer coops growing beans w/ #agroforestry like Dean's Beans
Starting in 2026, all coffee entering the EU must be deforestation-free. 🌱
Half of Brazil’s $4.8B coffee exports could be at risk if supply chains can’t prove forests are intact.
👉 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-smell-the-deforestation
#EUDR
Half of Brazil’s $4.8B coffee exports could be at risk if supply chains can’t prove forests are intact.
👉 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-smell-the-deforestation
#EUDR
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Starting in 2026, all coffee entering the EU must be deforestation-free. 🌱
Half of Brazil’s $4.8B coffee exports could be at risk if supply chains can’t prove forests are intact.
👉 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-smell-the-deforestation
#EUDR
Half of Brazil’s $4.8B coffee exports could be at risk if supply chains can’t prove forests are intact.
👉 coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-smell-the-deforestation
#EUDR
🚨 Germany’s Dallmayr linked to child & forced labour in Uganda.
Coffee Watch filed a #BAFA report under the #LkSG exposing workers paid <$2/day, kids as young as 12 on fields, & abuses at a subsidiary of global coffee trader Neumann Kaffee Gruppe.
coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
Coffee Watch filed a #BAFA report under the #LkSG exposing workers paid <$2/day, kids as young as 12 on fields, & abuses at a subsidiary of global coffee trader Neumann Kaffee Gruppe.
coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
🚨 Germany’s Dallmayr linked to child & forced labour in Uganda.
Coffee Watch filed a #BAFA report under the #LkSG exposing workers paid <$2/day, kids as young as 12 on fields, & abuses at a subsidiary of global coffee trader Neumann Kaffee Gruppe.
coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
Coffee Watch filed a #BAFA report under the #LkSG exposing workers paid <$2/day, kids as young as 12 on fields, & abuses at a subsidiary of global coffee trader Neumann Kaffee Gruppe.
coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
🚨 Germany’s Dallmayr linked to child & forced labour in Uganda.
Coffee Watch filed a #BAFA report under the #LkSG exposing workers paid <$2/day, kids as young as 12 on fields, & abuses at a subsidiary of global coffee trader Neumann Kaffee Gruppe.
coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
Coffee Watch filed a #BAFA report under the #LkSG exposing workers paid <$2/day, kids as young as 12 on fields, & abuses at a subsidiary of global coffee trader Neumann Kaffee Gruppe.
coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
🚨 Germany’s Dallmayr linked to child & forced labour in Uganda.
Coffee Watch filed a #BAFA report under the #LkSG exposing workers paid <$2/day, kids as young as 12 on fields, & abuses at a subsidiary of global coffee trader Neumann Kaffee Gruppe.
coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
Coffee Watch filed a #BAFA report under the #LkSG exposing workers paid <$2/day, kids as young as 12 on fields, & abuses at a subsidiary of global coffee trader Neumann Kaffee Gruppe.
coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
⚠️ EU Environment Ministers are meeting today to debate the #EUDR.
🟢 Together with 86 civil society organisations, including @coffeewatchorg , we’re calling on the EU to stand firm especially with #COP30 approaching.
👉 www.wwf.eu?19893941/Its...
🟢 Together with 86 civil society organisations, including @coffeewatchorg , we’re calling on the EU to stand firm especially with #COP30 approaching.
👉 www.wwf.eu?19893941/Its...
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
⚠️ EU Environment Ministers are meeting today to debate the #EUDR.
🟢 Together with 86 civil society organisations, including @coffeewatchorg , we’re calling on the EU to stand firm especially with #COP30 approaching.
👉 www.wwf.eu?19893941/Its...
🟢 Together with 86 civil society organisations, including @coffeewatchorg , we’re calling on the EU to stand firm especially with #COP30 approaching.
👉 www.wwf.eu?19893941/Its...
Starbucks named in reports under Germany’s Supply Chain Act over abuses in their coffee supply chains across Brazil, Mexico, and China. Investigations found child and forced labour, poverty wages, and unsafe conditions.
coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Starbucks named in reports under Germany’s Supply Chain Act over abuses in their coffee supply chains across Brazil, Mexico, and China. Investigations found child and forced labour, poverty wages, and unsafe conditions.
coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
Feels like an easy choice, right? ☕
Corporate profits & greenwashing vs. human rights, fair wages & accountability.
Reports filed by Coffee Watch + partners expose child labour in China, €2/day wages in Uganda & forced labour in Brazil.
Read more: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
Corporate profits & greenwashing vs. human rights, fair wages & accountability.
Reports filed by Coffee Watch + partners expose child labour in China, €2/day wages in Uganda & forced labour in Brazil.
Read more: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Feels like an easy choice, right? ☕
Corporate profits & greenwashing vs. human rights, fair wages & accountability.
Reports filed by Coffee Watch + partners expose child labour in China, €2/day wages in Uganda & forced labour in Brazil.
Read more: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
Corporate profits & greenwashing vs. human rights, fair wages & accountability.
Reports filed by Coffee Watch + partners expose child labour in China, €2/day wages in Uganda & forced labour in Brazil.
Read more: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
Behind #Coffee sold by global giants like Starbucks , Nestle and Dallmayr lies a hidden story of exploitation — from #childlabour on Chinese coffee farms to forced labour and #povertywages in Brazil, Mexico, and Uganda.
🔗 Read the full article: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
🔗 Read the full article: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
November 2, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Behind #Coffee sold by global giants like Starbucks , Nestle and Dallmayr lies a hidden story of exploitation — from #childlabour on Chinese coffee farms to forced labour and #povertywages in Brazil, Mexico, and Uganda.
🔗 Read the full article: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
🔗 Read the full article: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
🍫🕊️ Nestlé’s coffee supply chain is under fire. Reports were submitted to German authorities citing #childlabour in China and #debtbondage in Brazil, despite its “responsible sourcing” claims.
Read more 👉: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
Read more 👉: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
🍫🕊️ Nestlé’s coffee supply chain is under fire. Reports were submitted to German authorities citing #childlabour in China and #debtbondage in Brazil, despite its “responsible sourcing” claims.
Read more 👉: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
Read more 👉: coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
🚨 Coffee Watch and partners filed reports with German authorities naming Starbucks and Nestle for abuses in #Brazilian, #Mexican, and #Chinese supply chains and Dallmayr for Ugandan supply chains - abuses include #childlabour, #forcedlabour and #poverty wages.
👉 coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
👉 coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
October 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨 Coffee Watch and partners filed reports with German authorities naming Starbucks and Nestle for abuses in #Brazilian, #Mexican, and #Chinese supply chains and Dallmayr for Ugandan supply chains - abuses include #childlabour, #forcedlabour and #poverty wages.
👉 coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
👉 coffeewatch.org/reports-to-b...
Across Tikmüüin territory, coffee expansion is displacing communities, & destroying medicinal forests.
At #COP30 in Belém, Indigenous leaders will remind the world that protecting forests means protecting people - their stewardship is the strongest defense against #deforestation
At #COP30 in Belém, Indigenous leaders will remind the world that protecting forests means protecting people - their stewardship is the strongest defense against #deforestation
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Across Tikmüüin territory, coffee expansion is displacing communities, & destroying medicinal forests.
At #COP30 in Belém, Indigenous leaders will remind the world that protecting forests means protecting people - their stewardship is the strongest defense against #deforestation
At #COP30 in Belém, Indigenous leaders will remind the world that protecting forests means protecting people - their stewardship is the strongest defense against #deforestation
Coffee's boom amassed a massive forest debt - and its interest is still growing.
Coffee often grows on land already cleared for cattle, benefiting from deforestation that happened long before the first seed was planted. This is known as "deforestation laundering".
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Coffee often grows on land already cleared for cattle, benefiting from deforestation that happened long before the first seed was planted. This is known as "deforestation laundering".
t.co/6p8hJpBk7m
October 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Coffee's boom amassed a massive forest debt - and its interest is still growing.
Coffee often grows on land already cleared for cattle, benefiting from deforestation that happened long before the first seed was planted. This is known as "deforestation laundering".
t.co/6p8hJpBk7m
Coffee often grows on land already cleared for cattle, benefiting from deforestation that happened long before the first seed was planted. This is known as "deforestation laundering".
t.co/6p8hJpBk7m
🚨 BREAKING: A Brazilian coffee farm where 20 workers were rescued from slave-like conditions kept its Starbucks C.A.F.E. Practices certification until 2024 — even after the owner was added to the Dirty List.
Read @reporterbrasil.org.br article to learn more:
reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/10/farm...
Read @reporterbrasil.org.br article to learn more:
reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/10/farm...
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
🚨 BREAKING: A Brazilian coffee farm where 20 workers were rescued from slave-like conditions kept its Starbucks C.A.F.E. Practices certification until 2024 — even after the owner was added to the Dirty List.
Read @reporterbrasil.org.br article to learn more:
reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/10/farm...
Read @reporterbrasil.org.br article to learn more:
reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/10/farm...
Reposted by Coffee Watch
Em 2021, 20 trabalhadores foram resgatados de tabalho escravo na Fazenda Floresta, no Sul da Minas Gerais; novas evidências apontam que, mesmo após o flagrante, propriedade foi mantida no C.A.F.E. Practices, programa de boas práticas da Starbucks
reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/10/faze...
reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/10/faze...
Fazendeiro diz ter mantido 'selo Starbucks' mesmo após caso de trabalho escravo
Em 2021, 20 trabalhadores foram resgatados de condições análogas à escravidão na Fazenda Floresta, no Sul da Minas Gerais; novas evidências apontam que, mesmo após o flagrante, propriedade foi mantida...
reporterbrasil.org.br
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Em 2021, 20 trabalhadores foram resgatados de tabalho escravo na Fazenda Floresta, no Sul da Minas Gerais; novas evidências apontam que, mesmo após o flagrante, propriedade foi mantida no C.A.F.E. Practices, programa de boas práticas da Starbucks
reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/10/faze...
reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/10/faze...
Across Brazil’s coffee belt, forests once teeming with life are disappearing.
What’s left behind is not just bare land — but broken systems.
☁️ Less rain.
💧 Drier soil.
💸 Unstable harvests.
What’s left behind is not just bare land — but broken systems.
☁️ Less rain.
💧 Drier soil.
💸 Unstable harvests.
October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Across Brazil’s coffee belt, forests once teeming with life are disappearing.
What’s left behind is not just bare land — but broken systems.
☁️ Less rain.
💧 Drier soil.
💸 Unstable harvests.
What’s left behind is not just bare land — but broken systems.
☁️ Less rain.
💧 Drier soil.
💸 Unstable harvests.
These forests were not just trees — they were homes. 🌿🏠
New Coffee Watch analysis reveals that from 2001 to 2023, Brazil’s coffee heartland lost more than 11 million hectares of forest. Within that footprint, at least 312,803 hectares were directly cleared for coffee.
New Coffee Watch analysis reveals that from 2001 to 2023, Brazil’s coffee heartland lost more than 11 million hectares of forest. Within that footprint, at least 312,803 hectares were directly cleared for coffee.
October 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
These forests were not just trees — they were homes. 🌿🏠
New Coffee Watch analysis reveals that from 2001 to 2023, Brazil’s coffee heartland lost more than 11 million hectares of forest. Within that footprint, at least 312,803 hectares were directly cleared for coffee.
New Coffee Watch analysis reveals that from 2001 to 2023, Brazil’s coffee heartland lost more than 11 million hectares of forest. Within that footprint, at least 312,803 hectares were directly cleared for coffee.
#Forests don’t just make oxygen — they make rain. ☁️
“Flying rivers” bring up to 40% of rainfall to #Brazil belt.
#Deforestation breaks this cycle, drying the lands that grow our coffee.
🌎 Read more: coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
“Flying rivers” bring up to 40% of rainfall to #Brazil belt.
#Deforestation breaks this cycle, drying the lands that grow our coffee.
🌎 Read more: coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
#Forests don’t just make oxygen — they make rain. ☁️
“Flying rivers” bring up to 40% of rainfall to #Brazil belt.
#Deforestation breaks this cycle, drying the lands that grow our coffee.
🌎 Read more: coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
“Flying rivers” bring up to 40% of rainfall to #Brazil belt.
#Deforestation breaks this cycle, drying the lands that grow our coffee.
🌎 Read more: coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-...
Reposted by Coffee Watch
Le café brésilien, menacé par la déforestation massive qu’il cause lui-même
Le café brésilien, menacé par la déforestation massive qu’il cause lui-même
Dans moins de trois semaines, le Brésil accueillera la 30e conférence des Nations unies sur le climat. La COP30 aura lieu à Belém, en Amazonie et le pays entend bien faire des forêts un enjeu majeur de ce rendez-vous, alors que le Brésil est confronté à une déforestation importante. Si celle liée à l’élevage du bétail et la culture du soja est bien documentée, c’est en revanche bien moins le cas pour celle liée au café alors que le pays en est le premier producteur mondial et que ses forêts paient un lourd tribut à sa culture.
rfi.my
October 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Le café brésilien, menacé par la déforestation massive qu’il cause lui-même
Reposted by Coffee Watch
In Brasilien zerstört Kaffee seine eigene Lebensgrundlage: den Regen. Warum Kaffee ein kannibalistischer Rohstoff ist. Und wie es auch anders geht.
Entwaldung für Kaffeeanbau: Wenn der Wald stirbt, stirbt der Regen
In Brasilien zerstört Kaffee seine eigene Lebensgrundlage: den Regen. Warum Kaffee ein kannibalistischer Rohstoff ist. Und wie es auch anders geht.
taz.de
October 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
In Brasilien zerstört Kaffee seine eigene Lebensgrundlage: den Regen. Warum Kaffee ein kannibalistischer Rohstoff ist. Und wie es auch anders geht.
Reposted by Coffee Watch
Café na Prensa ☕️
📝David Lucena | Café do Brasil desmatou área de duas São Paulo em 25 anos, diz pesquisa
📝David Lucena | Café do Brasil desmatou área de duas São Paulo em 25 anos, diz pesquisa
Café na Prensa: Café do Brasil desmatou área de duas São Paulo em 25 anos, diz pesquisa
OUTRO LADO: Setor afirma que fazendas preservam mais vegetação do que o exigido por lei
mla.bs
October 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Café na Prensa ☕️
📝David Lucena | Café do Brasil desmatou área de duas São Paulo em 25 anos, diz pesquisa
📝David Lucena | Café do Brasil desmatou área de duas São Paulo em 25 anos, diz pesquisa
Reposted by Coffee Watch
A new report from the nonprofit Coffee Watch says that modern coffee production in Brazil continues to be a significant driver of deforestation, with hundreds of thousands of hectares of native forest cleared inside coffee farm boundaries since 2001...
Report Says Coffee Continues to Erase Brazil's Forests, Exacerbating Climate Shocks
A new report from the nonprofit Coffee Watch says that modern coffee production in Brazil continues to be a significant driver of deforestation.
dailycoffeenews.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A new report from the nonprofit Coffee Watch says that modern coffee production in Brazil continues to be a significant driver of deforestation, with hundreds of thousands of hectares of native forest cleared inside coffee farm boundaries since 2001...