Climate change and its impacts are growing more severe and exacerbating environmental degradation. Degraded ecosystems cause declines in coffee productivity and a reduction in coffee growers. To tackle this, a partnership between Nestle and GIZ was established. The alliance, which was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the Integrated Development Partnership with the Private Sector (iDPP) development partnerships, is part of the global programme “Sustainability and Value Added in Agricultural Supply Chains”. By bringing together multidisciplinary climate-resilient practices and strategic partnerships, the partners aim to promote a healthy and diverse ecosystem and better livelihoods for the farmers.

Striving to support smallholder coffee farmers in dealing with the serious adverse effects of the changing climate, GIZ and Nestle partnered in the “Improving coffee smallholder coffee farming systems in Southeast Asia (Coffee+)” project starting in 2018 to improve the economic viability of the farming system of smallholder coffee growers in selected areas in Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. In 2022, they agreed to continue the partnership under the iDPP with the project “Transforming livelihoods and climate resilience of smallholder coffee producers through the adoption of regenerative agriculture production systems (Coffee++)”. Coffee++ aims to support smallholder farmers’ economic livelihoods, create better social conditions, and address climate change in selected coffee areas in the three previous countries, plus Côte d’Ivoire, through the adoption of regenerative agricultural farming practices.