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Coffee Watch
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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.
With #COP30 taking place in the #Amazon itself, ignoring the role of #coffee means ignoring one of the most traded, most climate-vulnerable, and most forest-linked commodities on Earth.

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La deforestazione nella tazzina: così il caffè disbosca l’Amazzonia, pressing per fermare le regole UE | One Earth
www.one-earth.it
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Global deforestation reached 8.1 million hectares in 2024, and Brazil now leads the world in primary forest loss. Yet coffee remains largely absent from the main negotiations, even though millions of farmers depend on coffee for their livelihoods
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Reposted by Coffee Watch
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
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...
news.mongabay.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Rainfall in Minas Gerais dropped 50% below normal in 2014, and droughts have struck 8 of the last 10 years.

🔗 Read the full report: coffeewatch.org/wake-up-and-smell-the-deforestation
Brazil Coffee Deforestation | Coffee Watch
A new report from Coffee Watch examining Brazil's coffee forest debt. The report links forest loss to drying trends across the coffee belt, and the subsequent rainfall losses to crop failures and high...
coffeewatch.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM