Our Mission

Our Mission

The Swiss Sustainable Coffee Platform unites businesses, research, and civil society to drive sustainability in the coffee value chain in Switzerland and beyond. Through collaboration and targeted projects, it fosters impact, supports regulations, and improves livelihoods in coffee-producing countries. 

By fostering collaboration among private sector companies, research, and civil society, the Coffee Platform enables coordinated actions to promote sustainability across the coffee value chain. The initiative supports Swiss businesses in meeting growing national and international sustainability regulations. In coffee-producing countries, the Coffee Platform will drive impact by implementing targeted projects to tackle these challenges, co-financed by the Swiss private sector and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

The Coffee Platform promotes shared responsibility for one of Switzerland’s key economic sectors. By fostering dialogue among diverse stakeholders, the Coffee Platform creates a common understanding of the challenges, opportunities, and solutions within the coffee value chain. It drives collaboration between the Swiss coffee sector and national and international initiatives advocating for sustainability.

Together, members commit to making the coffee value chain more sustainable, fostering peer learning, harmonising impact measurement, and co-designing projects in coffee-producing countries—supported by SECO. Through policy dialogue and partnerships, the Coffee Platform strengthens efforts to improve the livelihoods of coffee farmers and their families. 

Our Roadmap 2030

In September 2025, the members of the Coffee Platform adopted their Roadmap 2030, establishing a foundation for a process of continuous improvement. For the first time, the various stakeholders in the coffee sector in Switzerland have agreed on common ambitions. These goals are intended to guide the stakeholders and, at the same time, strengthen cooperation and joint learning. The Roadmap thus forms the framework for joint action.

The six ambitions of the SSCP Roadmap 2030:

  1. Coffee farming households reduce, or even close, their living income gap. Coffee farm workers earn at least a minimum wage, and their wages increase towards a living wage.
  2. Human rights risks like child labour and forced labour are addressed through effective due diligence processes.
  3. Coffee production supports deforestation- and conversion-free coffee supply chains and actively supports the restoration of degraded forest ecosystems and other relevant ecosystems.
  4. Regenerative Agriculture practices are widely adopted on coffee plantations.
  5. Coffee production works toward net-zero emissions in alignment with global climate goals.
  6. Coffee is sourced using schemes that transparently ensure sustainable agriculture practices


The Roadmap is available for download below in both its long and short versions.