Sustainable Business Models in Specialty Coffee: Insights with 2024 Winners Sancoffee & Root Capital

Since 2004, the SCA has recognized outstanding work in the field of sustainability with the annual Sustainability Awards Program.

The projects, business models, and individuals receiving these awards are not only dedicated to confronting the enormous challenges facing our industry – from climate change to gender equality – but also to collaborating across geographies, cultures, and supply chain roles, and to to sharing the lessons they have learned for the benefit of the entire coffee sector.

Our 2024 Award Winners Sancoffee (For-Profit) and Root Capital (Non-Profit) joined SCA Sustainability Director Andrés Montenegro to discuss best practices for existing as sustainable businesses in the coffee industry. They shared the innovative practices and actionable strategies that made them winners last year, while also touching on the core values of their businesses which drive these choices. ⁣

Panelists include:d Ana Claudia Silva, Impact Coordinator at Sancoffee, Fabricio Andrade, CEO of Sancoffee, and Daniel Rivera, Head of Lending (LatAm) at Root Capital.

With each year we see greater diversity in the approaches that companies, organizations, and individuals take to confronting the challenges facing our industry. These awards reflect collaborations that happen across geographies, cultures, and supply-chain roles.

The Sustainability Awards represent an important piece of the SCA’s Sustainable Coffee Agenda in practice. A theory of change, or logical framework, underpins the SCA’s Sustainable Coffee Agenda:

If we shape mindsets and business behaviors, and generate actionable knowledge needed to build a thriving coffee industry, then we could foster equitable value distribution as a tool to make specialty coffee a thriving, equitable, and sustainable activity for all actors in the value chain.