Scaling CSA through investment in resilience of coffee production The CSA Coffee Lab is a comprehensive technical support package for smallholding coffee farmers to produce in a Climate Smart manner, developed over the course of 2016-2020. New partnerships to replicate the model across the region have been signed with Mercon/Illy in Nicaragua and with Volcafe / Molinos de Honduras in Honduras, and we continued negotiations with Louis Dreyfus Company, Exportadora Café California and Nestlé in Mexico to adopt the CSA package for their supply chains of small producers in 2022. These negotiations have been delayed due to the internal bureaucracy of these companies and in some cases due to the lack of engagement of their management in sustainability.
189 smallholders implemented the package in 2021, and experienced 58% higher yields compared to the average. We are confident to upscale the model through our new partnerships over the course of 2022.