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Do Sustainable Certifications For Coffee Really Help Coffee Growers?

A global development research organization study suggests that there's little data showing whether growers benefit from sustainably certifying their coffee because they are difficult to monitor.
A new report suggests that when consumers buy sustainably-certified coffee, they have little way of knowing whether or how their purchase helps growers.

Most of the time, we don't know how our coffee were made. We don't know if children's hands handled the berries when they might have been handling pencils, if workers had respirators to protect against harsh agrochemicals or if global coffee prices shafted the farmer this year. Sustainable certifications, like the or , are a way people try to verify their coffee is up

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