Rainforest Alliance - Sustainable Development

The Kenco Coffee Company are not just passionate about great tasting coffee, but also about ensuring a sustainable future for coffee farmers.

For well over a decade Kenco have been working in partnership with Non-Governmental Organisations on sustainability initiatives around the world. Kenco's partnership with the Rainforest Alliance is the latest of these and will help to provide farmers and their communities with environmental, social and economic benefits for years to come.

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What Is Sustainability?

Sustainability is about ensuring that what we do today to meet our needs doesn’t make it harder for future generations to meet their needs.

Coffee produced in line with the principles of sustainability which conserves wildlife, protects farm workers and helps farmers improve their incomes and quality of life.

This approach ensures that people who work with the land live with dignity and with their human rights fully respected. Farmers are helped to earn a decent living for themselves and their families without damaging their environment and without depleting vital natural resources.

Who is the Rainforest Alliance?

The Rainforest Alliance is a leading international non-profit conservation organisation operating in over 50 countries. It collaborates with farmers, workers, business leaders, Non-Governmental Organisations, governments and local communities to develop and implement standards in coffee farming that are socially and environmentally responsible, as well as economically viable. ‘Certification’ by the Rainforest Alliance is a signal that a farm has met rigorous standards that conserve biodiversity and provide sustainable livelihoods. Rainforest Alliance certification stands for a sustainable future for coffee farming, but certification is also valuable because it is an independent guarantee that high social, economic and environmental standards are being met.

The Rainforest Alliance and Kenco Sustainable Development

It is for the reasons above that Kenco is committed to blending coffee from Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms into their major brands such as Kenco and Maxwell House, as well as having a unique Kenco Sustainable Development coffee range (plus the new retail Kenco Pure range) made entirely from sustainably-farmed beans.

Kenco Sustainable Development is a range of Kenco coffee products made entirely from coffee farmed on Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms. The Kenco Sustainable Development range contains only high quality Arabica beans, giving a rich, full aroma and a smooth, distinctive taste.

This range offers caterers and operators the opportunity not only to serve coffee produced in a sustainable way, but also coffee that meets the exacting standards of The Kenco Coffee Company- the people who love coffee as much as you do.