From beans to biodiversity: rethinking coffee’s hidden impacts

25/09/2025 24 min Episodio 1118
From beans to biodiversity: rethinking coffee’s hidden impacts

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Etelle Higonnet, founder of Coffee Watch, talks with Ian Welsh about the big sustainability challenges in coffee, from deforestation and water stress to poverty incomes and labour rights. They highlight solutions such as agroforestry, better farmer livelihoods and stronger governance to help shift coffee from being a cause of environmental and social harm to a force for regeneration.

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