Environmentally Friendly Coffees
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In general environmentally friendly coffees are organic brands of coffee. Organic coffee is grown using sustainable agricultural practices. Environmentally friendly coffees are grown without resorting to herbicides, insecticides, fungicides or synthetic fertilizers. Drink healthy organic coffee and avoid the more than one hundred impurities that can be found in a cup of regular coffee. To be sure that you are buying environmentally friendly coffees look for a certification seal on the package. There are three that you can trust when looking for environmentally friendly coffees. These are the USDA seal of the United States Department of Agriculture, the UTZ seal of certification and the seal of the Rainforest Alliance.
USDA Certified Coffee
When coffee is certified organic by the we know that sustainable agricultural practices were used and that the organic coffee is free of many of the pesticide, herbicide, and synthetic fertilizer residues that can be found on regular coffee products. However, USDA organic coffee certification has primarily to do with supporting sustainable agricultural practices while delivering a healthier cup of coffee to your breakfast table. But the USDA does not concern itself with an issue critical to the small organic coffee farmer, finding buyers for their organic crop.
UTZ Certified Coffee
The UTZ label tells you that the bag of coffee comes from a coffee farm that employes sustainable agricultural practices, good environmental practices and efficient farm management. Environmentally friendly coffees with the UTZ label are traced from grower to roaster. UTZ certified coffee is sold in North America, Europe, and Japan, in nearly fifty nations. According to UTZ,
UTZ Certified stands for sustainable farming and better opportunities for farmers, their families and our planet. The UTZ program enables farmers to learn better farming methods, improve working conditions and take better care of their children and the environment. Through the UTZ-program farmers grow better crops, generate more income and create better opportunities while safeguarding the environment and securing the earth’s natural resources.
Rainforest Alliance Certified Coffee
The Rainforest Alliance is a non-governmental organization working to preserve biodiversity. It does so for agricultural products by influencing consumers to buy environmentally friendly coffees and other produce such as bananas, cocoa, oranges, cut flowers, ferns, and tea.
10. When coffee is certified organic by the
USDA, we know that sustainable
agricultural practices were used and
that the organic coffee is free of many
of the pesticide, herbicide, and
synthetic fertilizer residues that can be
found on regular coffee products.
11. However, USDA organic coffee
certification has primarily to do with
supporting sustainable agricultural
practices while delivering a healthier
cup of coffee to your breakfast table.
12. But the USDA does not concern itself
with an issue critical to the small
organic coffee farmer, finding buyers for
their organic crop.
14. The UTZ label tells you that the bag of
coffee comes from a coffee farm that
employs sustainable agricultural
practices, good environmental
practices and efficient farm
management.
16. UTZ certified coffee is sold in North
America, Europe, and Japan, in nearly
fifty nations. According to UTZ,
17. UTZ Certified stands for sustainable
farming and better opportunities for
farmers, their families and our planet.
The UTZ program enables farmers to
learn better farming methods, improve
working conditions and take better care
of their children and the environment.
18. Through the UTZ-program farmers
grow better crops, generate more
income and create better opportunities
while safeguarding the environment
and securing the earth’s natural
resources.
20. The Rainforest Alliance is a non-
governmental organization working to
preserve biodiversity.
21. It does so for agricultural products by
influencing consumers to buy
environmentally friendly coffees and
other produce such as bananas, cocoa,
oranges, cut flowers, ferns, and tea.
23. Certified coffee farms meet a strict set
of environmental standards that include
preservation of the ecosystem and
reduction in use of synthetic chemicals
of all sorts.
24. Like UTZ, Rainforest Alliance helps
small organic coffee growers find
buyers for their environmentally friendly
coffees.
26. There are, unfortunately, many small
coffee farmers who abide by strictly
organic sustainable practices in
growing, harvesting, processing and
storing their coffee and end up selling
their product locally.
28. One of our goals at Buy Organic Coffee
is to find buyers of wholesale organic
coffee who are interested in connecting
with small coffee farmers, especially in
Colombia and Panama.
29. If you are interested in organic coffee in
small or large quantities and especially
if you would like to work with us to
connect small organic coffee growers to
the wider market contact Buy Organic
Coffee today.
