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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) impact on our coffee farmers

As a food and beverage maker serving the entire country, we value the communities with which we interact, be it in sourcing our raw materials, manufacturing, distribution, or sales. The quality of our community relationships is important to our success. We believe we have the obligation to help communities shape happier and healthier lives for people.

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Giving back to our community

Filipinos play a central role in Nestlé's success and we are committed to giving back and ensuring that those within our community can grow alongside us. To serve others, we follow the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations as the guideline.

Initiatives like the NESCAFÉ Plan and promoting regenerative food systems focus on enhancing the socio-economic conditions of the people in our communities, such as Filipino coffee farmers.

These projects encompass a wide range of activities and are designed to address different aspects of sustainable development. These include no poverty, zero hunger, responsible consumption and production, climate action, life on land, and partnerships with proper stakeholders.

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Helping our coffee farmers through our integrated coffee center

At the heart of the Nescafé Plan is our Integrated Coffee Center where we showcase our farmer training using the latest technology in coffee production.

Our Integrated Coffee Center contains the following:

  • A training center

  • A mother plant garden
  • A plantlet nursery

  • Composting and vermicomposting facilities

  • Experimental and demo farms

  • Intercropping models

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NESCAFÉ Plan

Nestlé, the country's leading coffee manufacturer, collaborates with Filipino coffee farmers facing shared challenges. Despite the increasing demand for coffee in the Philippines, local communities produce only 27% of the required supply, with the remainder imported.

The coffee subsector grapples with various issues, including a lack of agricultural knowledge, technology, capital, and access to credit and markets, as well as poor-quality planting materials, aging trees, and the impact of climate change. Nestlé addresses these concerns through the NESCAFÉ Plan, a comprehensive initiative aimed at improving smallholder farmers' yields, incomes, and overall quality of life. The program emphasizes regenerative agriculture practices to sustain productivity, absorb carbon, and enhance resilience to climate change, ensuring a long-term and sustainable supply of local green coffee beans.
 

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Through the NESCAFÉ Plan...

We offer coffee farmers and communities ready access to the market, buying their produce based on world market prices and making timely payments.

We use Robusta green coffee beans to make NESCAFÉ in our Cagayan de Oro factory. Apart from water, NESCAFÉ is 100 percent pure coffee. Today, about 80 percent of Philippine coffee is grown in Mindanao, most of it in Sultan Kudarat and Bukidnon. By choice, we prioritize obtaining as much locally grown Robusta as possible instead of imports, even if buying purely imported beans would be more efficient. We believe that helping our Filipino coffee farmers is the right thing to do for national development. We have faith in their capabilities, and they will eventually make the country self-sufficient in coffee.

Implementing the NESCAFÉ Plan is enabled by our strong collaboration with partners in government led by the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, and with the private sector, as well as NGOs and development agencies.

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A key component of the program is Project Coffee +

A pilot initiative launched in 2018 in cooperation with GIZ, the German Agency for International Cooperation. Project Coffee+ has intensively schooled 1,500 farmers in Mindanao to become agripreneurs who treat farming as a business. They have been trained to optimize coffee production, and learned basic management and financial practices. As a result, their yields and income have tripled on average, substantially boosting their economic capabilities. Project Coffee+ proves that small-scale coffee farming can provide a viable livelihood, with the right support and intervention. Its second phase called Project Coffee++is underway, focusing on advocacy and capacity building among organizations for regenerative agriculture, and resiliency and adaptation to climate change.

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Video Kasambuhay For Good

Kasambuhay for Good: The NESCAFÉ Plan (2021)

 

Our partner farmers

Bilang Kasambuhay ng Magkakapeng Pilipino, saludo ang Nestlé sa mga coffee farmers na nagsisilibing inspiration at pag-asa sa pagtaguyod ng kapeng Pilipino.

 

Partnerships to uplift livelihoods

In order to fulfill our dedication to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we have established alliances with various stakeholders who share our focus on social impact. Together, we work in harmony to bring about positive change on a global scale. At Nestlé, our goal is to form partnerships with organizations that share our vision and can contribute to the betterment of the Filipino people and marginalized communities. We have actively collaborated with governmental bodies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to offer training, technical support, financial connections, and additional resources.