Investments for Impact & Resilience: A Coffee Industry Guidebook on Landscape and Jurisdictional Initiatives

Overview

The coffee sector is confronting accelerating climate impacts, complex sourcing dynamics, and rapidly evolving due-diligence requirements such as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). 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.

What you’ll find inside

• Step-by-step guidance for identifying your company’s priority landscapes for investment.
• Frameworks for assessing and engaging with LJIs.
• Tools for integration, implementation & impact measurement.
• Strategies for long-term engagement and sustainability 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.

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 IP, a Global Environment Facility programme led by The World Bank in partnership with UNDP Food Systems.