"World Bank Group and Nespresso Partner to Help Coffee Farmers in East Africa," 7 October 2016

Nespresso has today announced…a landmark collaboration project to support coffee farmers in East Africa to combat the effects of climate change…This project…will work with more than 40,000 smallholder coffee farmers in several regions of Ethiopia and Kenya to provide technical and financial support to increase sustainable practices and plant trees on their land. Reforestation of this kind helps to make farms more resilient to climate change. The farmers will also receive training in agricultural best practices to help them improve their productivity and the quality of their coffee harvests – enabling them to earn more money…One of the areas to benefit will be Oromia, the largest regional state in Ethiopia…with the greatest forest cover. This region…lies in the heart of the ‘cradle of coffee’ and has seen widespread deforestation, causing the landscape to become degraded and increasing its vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. Farming has been a major contributing factor to this deforestation…