LONDON, Sept 14 — Most global coffee firms will not be ready to comply with the European Union’s new law preventing imports of commodities linked to deforestation, and small farmers may suffer as a consequence, a major coffee sector report has found.
According to the biennial Coffee Barometer, prepared by a group of NGOs, coffee firms’ lack of preparedness for the law might prompt them to shift sourcing to more developed regions like Brazil that have better traceability, leaving the millions of mostly small scale, poverty stricken farmers in the lurch.
These farmers would then sell to regions with less stringent environmental rules, negating the intended impact of the law. Deforestation is responsible for about 10 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change, and the law aims to tackle the EU’s contribution to this. Coffee is produced by an estimated 12.5 million farmers in roughly 70 countries, but just 5 of them — Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Indonesia and Honduras — produce 85 per cent of the world’s coffee.
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