The Californian coffee roaster said the achievement highlights its commitment to promoting a ‘transparent, equitable and sustainable’ coffee industry
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San Francisco Bay Coffee partnered with Enveritas in June 2023 | Photo credit: San Francisco Bay Coffee/Facebook
Non-profit sustainability auditor Enveritas has verified 100% of coffee purchases made by San Francisco Bay Coffee in 2023 as ‘responsibly sourced’.
California-based San Francisco Bay Coffee partnered with Enveritas in June 2023 to measure progress on environmental, economic and social KPIs across its supply chain. The coffee roaster buys directly from farmers, primarily in Central and South America, and roasts over 30 million lb (13.6m kg) of coffee annually.
In a press release, San Francisco Bay Coffee said partnering with Enveritas has reinforced its role in ‘promoting a transparent, equitable, and sustainable coffee industry’. It also highlights its efforts to invest in sustainable labour and environmentally friendly practices, including protection of biodiversity, conserving soil and water, and managing chemical usage responsibly, it added.
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Founded by Jon and Barbara Rogers in 1979, San Francisco Bay Coffee’s annual Rogers Charitable Fund supports the farmers it buys from to increase the quality and quantity of coffee produced on their farms as well as gain better access to health services and education.
San Francisco Bay Coffee has help build more than 63 schools, 1,700 housing communities and over a dozen medical centres over the last 25 year.
Founded in 2016, New York-based Enveritas provides sustainability assurance for the coffee industry by assessing social, economic and environmental practices in the coffee supply chain. It currently operates in 26 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America.
To date, the non-profit has verified sustainable practices at more than 350,000 coffee farms around the world in partnership with prominent roasters including JDE Peet’s, Tchibo, Dunkin’, Counter Culture Coffee, Blue Bottle Coffee, Espresso House and Tim Hortons.