With Gabriel Agrelli Moreira, from Daterra Coffee.

Climate change is imposing lots of challenges on farms around the globe and coffee is a crop that could be severely affected by its impacts. Research from the World Coffee Research Institute indicates that lands suitable for coffee production will be reduced by half due to climate change.

Daterra, a coffee farm in Brazil, believes agriculture should be one of the most powerful allies in the planet’s cooling process – and that includes coffee growing.

Through a series of regenerative agricultural practices, Daterra has become Carbon Negative – meaning the farm removes more carbon from the atmosphere, than it releases while producing the beans.

Gabriel will explain what projects they are developing at the farm level to reduce further carbon emissions, increase carbon sequestrations and produce water.

The farms are located in the Cerrado region of Brazil – the second biggest ecoregion in South America, and is among the most important biodiversity hotspots in the world. Still, deforestation has increased by 43% in Cerrado in 2023. He will also present the farm’s initiatives to protect and restore this biome, through their Tree_llion project.

Nordic Coffee Fest and Daterra have partnered up to bring a climate-positive coffee to the Nordics Best Roaster competition, in an effort to connect the coffee supply chain through sustainability from the place where coffee grows to the final sip in the cup.