With Bjørge Bondevik, Co-founder of Konfiansa, a non-profit coffee business rethinking coffee global value chains.

Despite half of global coffee production being certified as sustainable, millions of smallholder farmers remain in poverty, with their share of the global coffee value chain decreasing. Bjørge's research in Timor-Leste reflects broader literature, indicating limited impacts of certified and relationship coffee interventions on smallholder livelihoods.

In their talk, Bjørge explores the connection between sustainability in the value chain and farmer livelihood improvements, drawing from wider insights in the coffee industry's sustainability literature.