GCP welcomes KOLTIVA to the membership community! In this Meeting Members feature, GCP learns more about the company’s sustainability goals and we find out how the new member is looking to work with and through GCP to achieve these.
Since its founding in 2013, KOLTIVA has emerged as a leading agritech provider, facilitating enterprises in navigating intricate supply chains, implementing sustainable practices, and transitioning to traceable sourcing. Operating in 61 countries, we serve more than 8,600 enterprises and over one million registered producers and business users with a global mission to transform supply chains beyond traceability. In the coffee sector alone, we’ve registered over 200 thousand smallholder farmers and assessed over 740k hectares of coffee farmland.
Recognized as a significant contributor to global deforestation and forest degradation, coffee is explicitly listed among the agricultural sectors affected by the new European Union Deforestation-Free Regulation (EUDR). This is where EUDR compliance steps in – a pivotal framework ensuring Coffee’s ethical sourcing and production. KOLTIVA integrates triple-tech (agritech, fintech, and climatech) with boots-on-the-ground services to enhance producers’ outcomes and profitability while fostering sustainable coffee supply chains. Our focus on agroforestry supply chains, such as coffee, has led us to collaborate with leading agri-food and beverage companies.
At KOLTIVA, we prioritize sustainable development by empowering coffee producers to enhance farm productivity, meet international sustainability regulations, and improve their welfare. We provide access to high-quality inputs, sustainable markets, Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) knowledge, and financial services. Our commitment extends to tracking and recording product histories, ensuring quality and safety, optimizing supply chains, meeting regulations, and building trust with consumers. Through our partnerships, enterprises can achieve resilient, traceable supply chains while enabling producers to multiply their annual income up to fourfold.
As proud members of the GCP, we share a vision of a sustainable coffee sector for future generations by addressing multifaceted challenges such as climate change pressures to the need for evolving regulation compliance. In response to regulatory pressures, KOLTIVA expanded its solutions to assist businesses through a modular approach from traceability platform, offers a scalable solution for independent suppliers to meet the forthcoming EUDR regulations (KoltiTrace), KoltiSkills, an extension service, providing solutions for processors and manufacturers needing more field staff or third-party assistance. These services include sustainable supply chain mapping, transactional traceability support, and risk mitigation services in the field. Also, the latest addition to KOLTIVA’s modular approach for EUDR solutions is KoltiVerify. This solution enables manufacturers to independently verify their supply chain data for suppliers using another platform solution, or KoltiTrace, for supply chain mapping without utilizing KoltiSkills services. Data is evaluated based on completeness, quality, and EUDR compliance. Sample verification visits are available upon request.
“There is no sustainability without traceability. It doesn’t exist if you don’t visit your producers and verify their production. Sustainability is a story, and through our traceability platform, we illuminate the journey from farm to cup, ensuring transparency, accountability, and environmental stewardship. Our traceability platform serves as a beacon of transparency, fostering trust and empowering stakeholders to champion positive change.”
Manfred Borer, Co-Founder and CEO of KOLTIVA
This contribution forms part of a series called Meeting Members.
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