Nespresso’s ‘sustainable’ coffee
By Mathilde de Jeu (editor until June 2025), Irene van den Berg (editor until October 2025), | 2 January, 2025
Nespresso promises with its quality mark sustainable coffee and better circumstances for the farmers and the environment. But, Columbian coffee farmers say otherwise.
According to Nestlé, Nespresso’s quality mark guarantees sustainable coffee cultivation and social responsibility, but these promises do not keep stand everywhere. Some farmers on Columbian plantages use forbidden pesticides, work in unsafe circumstances and poverty is still a big problem- despite promised improvements for farmer and environment.
Checks on the conditions of the label are not very reliable, according to those involved: inspections are often announced in advance by the inspectors themselves, thus losing their effectiveness. Thus, even farmers who do not meet the conditions remain in the programme.
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