We aligned with the GCP to support their efforts to bring a common focus to the major sustainability challenges that face the coffee industry, and shared recognition of programs that advance baseline sustainability practices in a credible and effective manner.

Going forward from 2023, we accept programs that meet the following criteria:

1. 1. The Program has been deemed as equivalent under the GCP Equivalence Mechanism 2.0.


2. 2. The Program includes an independent audit of the farm-level practices of a representative sample of the producer group(s) supplying coffee to us in accordance with a set of key requirements.*

   *The industry standard sampling approach is to take the square root of the total number of farms as the baseline starting number to receive an audit, and then to adjust that number up or down based on risk. Each program will approach this differently and the GCP equivalence process ensures that each program has a robust management system in place for the sampling that is fit-for-purpose.



3. 3. The Program provides a set of standardized data that is requested of all our certification and verification partner programs.