Welcome to International Coffee Partners

Together for resilient coffee farming families

Who We Are

We are a pre-competitive partnership of seven leading family-owned coffee companies working for a more prosperous future for smallholder coffee farming families.

DELTA CAFÉS PORTUGAL

FRANCK CROATIA

JOH. JOHANNSON NORWAY

LAVAZZA ITALY

LÖFBERGS SWEDEN

NEUMANN KAFFEE GRUPPE GERMANY

TCHIBO GERMANY

Our Vision

The vision of International Coffee Partners (ICP) is to support smallholder coffee farmers improve their livelihoods by becoming more competitive, based on sustainable practices. Our objective is to contribute to establishing a fair and sustainable coffee sector in all coffee-producing countries.

A Starting Point

12.4 million smallholder coffee farming families around the world are facing very similar challenges: Communities are growing older as youth migrate from rural to urban areas which seem to offer more opportunities and the kind of lifestyle they seek. Limited economic and social perspectives, combined with difficult intergenerational dialogue, restricted access to expertise, financial resources, and land, are drivers of this migration. This trend is exacerbated by the effects of climate change, environmental degradation, and price volatility. Gender inequalities additionally hamper the potentials of smallholder families as they constrain balanced decision taking and fair distribution of work and responsibilities. All these challenges are addressed by our work.

Learn more about our work

118,582

smallholder families have been served in our projects since 2001.

We consider ourselves a learning organization. Our goal is to make our project interventions as effective as possible. This requires to evaluate positive and critical experiences on the ground and to constantly exchange with our partners.

The Work of ICP Contributes to the UN SDGs

Read more about how our work contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung

Our worldwide projects are implemented by Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS), a non-profit organization that acts as a bridge between ICP and smallholder families on the ground. HRNS plays an integral role in engaging with these families on a daily basis, while also administering ICP.

Find out more about HRNS