{"id":49400,"date":"2026-04-15T18:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/49400\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:23:13","slug":"nestle-inks-partnership-to-support-labor-rights-in-coffee-supply-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/49400\/","title":{"rendered":"Nestl\u00e9 inks partnership to support labor rights in coffee supply chains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This story was originally published on ESG Dive<\/a>. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily ESG Dive newsletter<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Nestl\u00e9 has partnered with the International Labour Organization<\/a> \u2014 a United Nations agency focused on advancing social justice, human rights and fair work standards \u2014 to launch a project that promotes fair recruitment and labor rights<\/a> in coffee supply chains based in Latin America.<\/p>\n

The two-year project will focus on three main coffee sourcing countries: Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, according to a Tuesday press release.<\/p>\n

The project aims to carry out interventions targeted at the country level to improve labor rights and work practices in these coffee supply chains, Nestl\u00e9 said in the release. The company said insights from these interventions will also supplement knowledge-sharing across the global coffee sector.<\/p>\n

As part of the project, ILO said it seeks to play the role of a facilitator, where it will focus on initiating social dialogue between governments and employers\u2019 and workers\u2019 organizations to understand the \u201ckey drivers\u201d of labor-related risks and fair work standards deficits in coffee supply chains. Nestl\u00e9 said it will then use these insights to carry out the country-level interventions.<\/p>\n

The UN agency is hoping to use the program to \u201cpromote decent work and contribute to more sustainable supply chains,\u201d in addition to advancing labor rights, Director of ILO\u2019s Priority Action Programme on Decent Work in Supply Chains Dan Rees said in the March 31 release.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoffee production sustains the livelihoods of approximately 20\u201325 million families worldwide, generating vital income and employment,\u201d Rees added. \u201cHowever, decent work deficits in coffee supply chains persist, particularly among seasonal and migrant workers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nestl\u00e9 said the project is backed by the \u201cNescaf\u00e9 Plan 2030<\/a>,\u201d the instant coffee brand\u2019s global sustainability program. The Swiss food and beverage giant updated the program in 2022 to help farmers transition to sustainable practices that improved productivity, cut spending and reduced greenhouse gas emissions linked to coffee production.<\/p>\n

Nestl\u00e9 reported that Nescaf\u00e9 sourced 32% of its coffee from farmers that implemented regenerative agriculture practices in 2024, surpassing a 2025 goal of sourcing 20% of coffee from such methods.<\/p>\n

The Nescaf\u00e9 Plan also focuses on improving the livelihoods of the sourcing farmers<\/a> and the communities they live in and includes social initiatives like human rights and child protection. The latter services include monitoring and bettering children and workers\u2019 rights across Nescaf\u00e9\u2019s supply chains, according to the coffee brand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story was originally published on ESG Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[126],"tags":[982,28320,3379,28321,24595,24596,199,28322,2833],"class_list":["post-49400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nestle","tag-coffee","tag-coffee-production","tag-human-rights","tag-instant-coffee","tag-international-labour-organization","tag-labor-rights","tag-nestle","tag-social-justice","tag-supply-chains"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116410122602322331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}