This story is related to the landscape initiative “Sourceup General Information”, and originally published on SourceUp.
The coffee sector is confronting accelerating climate impacts, complex sourcing dynamics, and rapidly evolving market requirements. While farm-level action remains essential, these systemic risks require coordinated solutions that go beyond individual supply chains.
Landscape and jurisdictional initiatives (LJIs) offer a strategic route to manage risk and deliver impact at scale by aligning public and private stakeholders around shared goals, investment, and transparent reporting.
Two new tools for transformation have recently been launched to help coffee companies accelerate their landscape action and identify how best to measure and report the results.
Investments for Impact & Resilience: A Coffee Industry Guidebook on Landscape and Jurisdictional Initiatives
Overview
The new guidebook ‘Investments for Impact & Resilience’ is designed to help coffee companies and supply chain actors take action. While it builds on existing LJI principles and guidance, it is tailored specifically to the coffee sector—offering concrete, actionable steps for companies that are among the early movers in landscape and jurisdictional engagement. Recognising that companies are at different stages in their place-based investment strategies, this guide is organised around key conceptual questions and practical steps for engaging with LJIs.
What is in the guidebook?
LJIs help companies de-risk supply chains, meet compliance requirements, leverage co-investment, and achieve greater ROI—while driving meaningful outcomes for people, climate, and nature.
This guidebook contains step-by-step guidance for identifying a company’s priority landscapes for investment, as well as the outcomes that will best address their sourcing and sustainability needs through engagement:
-
Step 1: Understand Your Needs – Identify priority landscapes for investment and outcomes that address your sourcing and sustainability needs
-
Step 2: Identify and Assess LJIs – Find and evaluate initiatives that align with your strategic and operational requirements
-
Step 3: Integrate, Implement, and Measure Impact – Systems for aligning with LJI governance, implementing activities, and reporting credible outcomes
-
Step 4: Plan for Long-Term Impact – Strategies for maintaining engagement and scaling successful approaches
Who this guidebook is for
Exporters, traders, roasters, brands and retailers—and their sustainability, procurement and sourcing teams—seeking clear, actionable pathways to invest in landscape and jurisdictional initiatives in coffee-sourcing regions.
About the collaboration
This guidebook was developed by Conservation International, IDH and SourceUp, and is published under the umbrella of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge. The work was made possible with financial support from FOLUR, a Global Environment Facility (GEF) programme led by the World Bank.
To access Investments for Impact & Resilience: A Coffee Industry Guidebook on Landscape and Jurisdictional Initiatives, visit JA Resource Hub and sustaincoffee.org.
SourceUp’s Landscape Reporting Explorer
Overview
Given the large number of mandatory and voluntary reporting frameworks that companies are faced with, IDH sought to simplify the task by creating a reporting tool that enables coffee companies especially to easily identify and compare indicators and metrics from different key frameworks to report on landscape engagement.
IDH worked with a consultancy to conduct a detailed evaluation of the mandatory and voluntary reporting frameworks that are most relevant for agri-commodity sourcing companies (coffee sector in particular), with an in-depth evaluation on their suitability for reporting on engagement in landscape initiatives. Following the evaluation, the results were used to create SourceUp’s Landscape Reporting Explorer.
What is SourceUp’s Landscape Reporting Explorer?
SourceUp’s Landscape Reporting Explorer enables companies and landscape initiative facilitators to browse and compare 11 key sustainability frameworks to determine how to measure and report impact data from landscape initiatives.
The multi-use tool features search functions to identify the most recurring indicators and metrics for sustainability themes such as climate, biodiversity, water (and many more), including the suitability of each indicator to report on engagement in landscape initiatives.
Who is SourceUp’s Landscape Reporting Explorer for?
This tool is primarily for coffee companies and landscape initiative facilitators who need to measure and report on the results of a landscape initiative. It can also be used by companies in other sectors because the sustainability frameworks included in the tool are relevant for multiple sectors.
To access SourceUp’s Landscape Reporting Explorer, visit the JA Resource Hub.