Coffee issues
We love coffee, it is the world’s favourite beverage
But the global coffee industry is a massive and unfair business with inherent sustainability issues. It is basically built on an extraction model taking cheap labour for granted and depleting natural resources.
The community offers a platform for networking, innovation partnerships and commercial collaboration. We share our insights, experiences, and competencies to develop innovative circular initiatives for new insights, processes, products, and services throughout the coffee value chain.
The coffee industry needs to change
Coffee is the second most consumed beverage in the world. Every day of the year 3 billion cups are consumed which makes coffee a massive multi-billion USD industry. Despite this, prices paid to farmers are often so low that they can barely make a living.
Facing climate change and with no room for investment, many coffee farmers are forced to continue using traditional, low-efficiency farming processes that are neither environmentally friendly nor profitable.
Today, most coffee production is extractive and wasteful. It relies upon ever-increasing quantities of agro-chemicals, fossil fuels, while polluting the environment and threatening human health. We are also wasting potential, as a lot of the by-products is treated as waste but can be recycled or even upcycled into new promising business opportunities.
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While coffee is a multi-billion USD industry, prices paid to coffee farmers are often so low that farmers in many cases are operating at loss
The coffee sector is ageing, young people are not continuing their family farms.
The coffee sector is ageing, young people are not continuing their family farms.
The coffee sector is ageing, young people are not continuing their family farms.
Huge growth potential
Currently, when brewing coffee, we use less than 1% of the many nutrients contained in the coffee plant. This is a huge waste of resources, but at the same time it leaves a massive potential for creating new value and income opportunities in coffee farming, production, and consumption.
Not only will innovation and technology make the coffee industry more efficient and environmentally friendly, there is also potential for growth. By exploring the full nutritious potential of the coffee plant and converting coffee farming waste to new product lines, we will add additional revenue streams – at farming level and beyond.
Inspirational solutions
Circular Coffee Community and its members are involved in a diverse range of projects and scientific development studies on circular transformation.
In the Solutions section on this website, you can see a range of cases and ongoing projects. Click on any of the images below or this link to know more.
If you have any questions to the projects and cases or wish to discuss an idea for an innovation project, please do contact us. We would love to meet you and discuss a partnership.
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Soil and coffee upcycling
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The coffee industry needs to change
Coffee is the second most consumed beverage in the world. Every day of the year 3 billion cups are consumed which makes coffee a massive multi-billion USD industry. Despite this, prices paid to farmers are often so low that they can barely make a living.
Facing climate change and with no room for investment, many coffee farmers are forced to continue using traditional, low-efficiency farming processes that are neither environmentally friendly nor profitable.
Today, most coffee production is extractive and wasteful. It relies upon ever-increasing quantities of agro-chemicals, fossil fuels, while polluting the environment and threatening human health. We are also wasting potential, as a lot of the by-products is treated as waste but can be recycled or even upcycled into new promising business opportunities.
Upcomming events
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28 februar 2023
Soil and coffee upcycling
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In mollis est nibh, ac finibus eros ullamcorper in. Aenean lacinia magna vel varius imperdiet.
28 februar 2023
Soil and coffee upcycling
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