Women have long played an essential role in coffee farming in Guatemala, contributing to harvesting, pulping, and tending nurseries. Yet their work is often viewed as secondary, and they rarely receive the same social or economic recognition.
National Coffee Day 2026 falls on Tuesday, September 29. It is celebrated in the United States on the same date every year. This year, coffee lovers can learn where coffee beans come from and how your daily cup of brew can transform the lives and livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers around the world.
Millions of cups of coffee are consumed every day by people around the world. Read about the benefits of coffee to people, communities, and the planet.
A paper from Sustainable Food Lab and TechnoServe finds that regenerative agriculture can eliminate or shrink the living income gap for coffee farmers and outlines additional approaches to boost livelihoods and resilience.
How does regenerative agriculture impact the ability of coffee-farming households to earn a living income? A new paper provides data from seven countries.
The new report, backed by UNIDO and leading coffee companies, highlights where farmers are most vulnerable to climate change and identifies opportunities to strengthen the sector’s future.
Timely investment can secure the livelihoods of millions of small-scale coffee farmers. An insightful new report by TechnoServe and UNIDO’s ACT Coffee Programme applies a critical climate-risk lens to 10 of the world’s most vital coffee-producing nations.
The Amazon is critical to our climate and planetary health. How can economic development there support people and the planet?
Agricultural training and leadership development can create unexpected pathways. For Joyce Wanjiku, a coffee farmer in Kenya, this training opened doors she hadn't imagined—from the cooperative board room to her expanding farm.
In Peru's San Martín region, coffee farmer Layit Vargas Tello learned skills that helped her transform from a quiet participant in her coffee cooperative to a leader in her community.
