While others in the supply chain are also facing higher bills, many farmers don’t have the reserves to cope. There is often nowhere to cut costs, either. Many coffee farmers are living in poverty.

Production depends on variables such as weather and diseases. Coffee is also a popular object of speculation on the stock market.This instability means farmers can struggle to predict their income and budget ahead for what their farms and families need.

The beans a farmer grows are often exported early on. Being left out of the processing along the value chain means producing countries are missing out on the chance to earn valuable extra income.

Coffee farming is becoming harder as a changing climate brings extreme and unpredictable weather, more pests and faster-spreading diseases. Coffee leaf rust is one example.

• Brooklyn Roasting Company: Like Brooklyn, we are bold, brave, colorful and creative. The outline of our logo, like the boundaries of the borough of Brooklyn, never changes, but what’s inside —the colorful characters of our coffees, our customers, and our employees— is always changing.

• Café Altura: Café Altura formed around a shared belief in the transformative and healing power of Organic and Regenerative agriculture. 

• Ethical Bean: In our world, ethics and business go together like coffee and cream, meaning you don’t have to sacrifice quality to do something good. We've been Fairtrade since day one.

• Gimme! Coffee: Our employee-owned cooperative structure gives a renewed sense of meaning to what this whole coffee thing is all about: economic prosperity from coffee producers to baristas rooted in sensory and community experiences.

• Gourmesso: Our shop is proud to not only offer the widest variety of blends and flavors available in the US, but also some much needed USDA Organic and certified Fairtrade compatible coffee capsules for Nespresso machines. Our US headquarter is based in Miami, Florida, but we deliver our coffee blends and products all over the country. 

• Grace Farms: Grace Farms Foods is a public benefit LLC, 100% owned by Grace Farms Foundation, with a mission to make the world a more just, sustainable, and peaceful place - one delicious sip and drip at a time. We do this by inviting everyone to share in Grace Farms, demonstrating and educating about ethical and sustainable supply chains, and giving back 100% of profits to supporting Grace Farms Foundation's humanitarian work to end forced labor worldwide.

• Highground: Made from the finest organic coffee beans that are sustainably sourced and Fairtrade certified, Highground delivers instant flavor that you can feel good about enjoying. We craft our delicious coffee using 100% Arabica Beans that are carefully selected and roasted to perfection. Go ahead and enjoy a cup, anywhere, anytime.

• Kaladi Coffee Roasters: We seek to awaken community both locally and globally by supporting local causes in our own community, and by supporting cooperative enterprise in the communities from which we source our coffee. 

• Kicking Horse Coffee: This coffee kicks ass. Why? It's deep, dark &; delicious. It's all Organic and Fairtrade. It's roasted right in the Rocky Mountains. It’s a little wild, with a lot of taste. These magic beans are the secret for how-to-brew the best coffee. It's meant to wake up the world. Wake up with us.

• Moka Origins: As a social enterprise, we are out to craft amazing products as well as make a positive impact for small holder farmers. We do this by ethically sourcing coffee and cacao, offering training programs on our Cameroon farm, and planting a tree for every product sold.

• Mount Hagen: Almost 100 million people are involved in making coffee: farmers, harvesters, processors, transporters, and laborers. And millions of these people working for a living aren’t making one, suffering extreme poverty and hunger with no way out. Enter Mount Hagen. As the first instant coffee producer in the world to be organic and Fairtrade certified, we prove that golden standards and respect can yield the highest quality product attainable.

• Nespresso: Nestlé Nespresso SA is the pioneer and reference for highest-quality portioned coffee. The company works with more than 110,000 farmers in 14 countries through its AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program to embed sustainability practices on farms and the surrounding landscapes. 

• One Coffee

• Puro

• Rockin' Cat: Rockin' Cat is a coffee company that promotes artists, designers, creative types of all stripes, and sustainable business practices. All of our coffees are certified Organic, certified Fairtrade, carefully selected + single-origin, small-batch roasted to perfection, packaged in a 100% compostable bag (even the zipper, valve, and labels are compostable), and Carbon Neutral, using Gold Standard Off-Sets.

• Sure House Coffee Roasting Co.: Sure House Coffee Roasting Co. beans are exclusively air roasted to bring out the flavor and integrity of the bean, not burn it to a crisp. Small batch roasting also ensures that each bean is consistently and congruently roasted by the end of the roast, making sure that each sip was as good as the last!

• Thanksgiving Coffee: We didn’t start out to change the world. We were just looking for a good cup of coffee. At the time, our community was supported and nourished by Northern California’s natural bounty, but when it came to coffee, we were still drinking stale grounds from a can. We named our company Thanksgiving to reflect our gratitude for living in a place where nature’s cornucopia overflowed. All of the ideals of the holiday resonated with our founders - community, abundance, giving back and giving thanks for our bounty.

• Three Keys Coffee: Our blends maintain the highest quality across a range of roasts. In a world of obscure tasting notes, we believe music can be a map to coffee that energizes your spirit and warms your soul.

• Twiga Coffee: In Swahili, twiga means giraffe. Like the giraffe, Twiga Coffee is big - in its mission, and in the robust flavors that are a delight to the senses. We aim to achieve excellence not only in the coffee that we offer but also in the relationships that we foster with farmers. Our buying policy is based on ethical, sustainable sourcing, and we further contribute to the world by donating 10% of all sales to wildlife conservation.

• Red Diamond

• Rhino Coffee: We want our cafes to be your go-to place for quality conversation, coffee, and experiences. Our baristas are trained in best practices for tea, coffee, and espresso-based beverages. Let them brew you up something good!

• Temecula Coffee Roasters: At Temecula Coffee Roasters, we work closely with both wholesale and private label clients to create a package and the coffee that will exactly fit their needs.

• Trader Joe's

• Van Houtte: For the best coffee, you must use the finest beans. At Van Houtte®, we have sourced the finest Arabica beans from the same producers for decades - some haven’t changed since the time of Albert-Louis Van Houtte. Mutually trusting relationships such as this ensure that we always have access to the highest quality products.