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Tool 1: Portuguese: The purpose of this guide is helping in clarify the landscape of people and/or organizations connected to business activities and to provide coffee companies with actionable recommendations and best practices on the design and implementation of stakeholder engagement strategies1 that will allow for the creation of constructive relationships that maximize the creation of shared value in coffee supply. The tool is directed to private sector companies and other organizations working in the coffee sector with interest on building collective agendas to address sustainability issues affecting the coffee sector.

Tool 1: Spanish: The purpose of this guide is helping in clarify the landscape of people and/or organizations connected to business activities and to provide coffee companies with actionable recommendations and best practices on the design and implementation of stakeholder engagement strategies1 that will allow for the creation of constructive relationships that maximize the creation of shared value in coffee supply. The tool is directed to private sector companies and other organizations working in the coffee sector with interest on building collective agendas to address sustainability issues affecting the coffee sector.

Tool 3: Portuguese: The purpose of this guide is to help coffee sector stakeholders better understand the underlying factors that increase the risk of labor and human rights violations in coffee supply chains. This can provide valuable insights to coffee companies, allowing them to identify and address labor risks among farmworkers. Strong sourcing networks are a pathway to building long-term profitable businesses. The leading coffee businesses of the future must therefore incorporate socially sustainable sourcing practices to promote the eradication of forced labor and child labor in the coffee sector.

Tool 3: Spanish: The purpose of this guide is to help coffee sector stakeholders better understand the underlying factors that increase the risk of labor and human rights violations in coffee supply chains. This can provide valuable insights to coffee companies, allowing them to identify and address labor risks among farmworkers. Strong sourcing networks are a pathway to building long-term profitable businesses. The leading coffee businesses of the future must therefore incorporate socially sustainable sourcing practices to promote the eradication of forced labor and child labor in the coffee sector.

Tool 4: Portuguese: A code of conduct is an important formal statement of a company’s values, commitments and expectations of its direct business partners, including what is required of these business partners or suppliers in managing human rights risks in their supply chains. We are offering the sample provisions below to coffee roasters, traders, and producers to support them in developing or strengthening their own policies or formal Codes of Conduct

Tool 4: Spanish: A code of conduct is an important formal statement of a company’s values, commitments and expectations of its direct business partners, including what is required of these business partners or suppliers in managing human rights risks in their supply chains. We are offering the sample provisions below to coffee roasters, traders, and producers to support them in developing or strengthening their own policies or formal Codes of Conduct.

Tool 5: Portuguese: This tool includes sample clauses pertaining to Social Responsibility Agreements between coffee roasters or traders and suppliers (coffee traders and producers), as well as between coffee producers and third-party labor providers. Please note that the sample clauses contained in this document only pertain to worker rights considerations and do not include a variety of other social, environmental, and ethical standards that should also be a part of a comprehensive code of conduct. It is also important to note that contracts alone are not enough to guarantee compliance with legal or code of conduct requirements, and that it is necessary to ensure that farmers and labor brokers have adequate profit margins, resourcing, training, and tools to successfully identify, address, and prevent labor risks.

Tool 5: Spanish: This tool includes sample clauses pertaining to Social Responsibility Agreements between coffee roasters or traders and suppliers (coffee traders and producers), as well as between coffee producers and third-party labor providers. Please note that the sample clauses contained in this document only pertain to worker rights considerations and do not include a variety of other social, environmental, and ethical standards that should also be a part of a comprehensive code of conduct. It is also important to note that contracts alone are not enough to guarantee compliance with legal or code of conduct requirements, and that it is necessary to ensure that farmers and labor brokers have adequate profit margins, resourcing, training, and tools to successfully identify, address, and prevent labor risks.

Tool 5: This tool includes sample clauses pertaining to Social Responsibility Agreements between coffee roasters or traders and suppliers (coffee traders and producers), as well as between coffee producers and third-party labor providers. Please note that the sample clauses contained in this document only pertain to worker rights considerations and do not include a variety of other social, environmental, and ethical standards that should also be a part of a comprehensive code of conduct. It is also important to note that contracts alone are not enough to guarantee compliance with legal or code of conduct requirements, and that it is necessary to ensure that farmers and labor brokers have adequate profit margins, resourcing, training, and tools to successfully identify, address, and prevent labor risks.

Tool 6: Portuguese: Verité research has found that the use of labor brokers (including recruiters, labor contractors, crew leaders, village agents, and in some cases employment agencies) is widespread in the Latin American coffee sector. Coffee producers often turn to labor recruiters when there is an urgent need for workers, especially during the labor-intensive harvest season. While labor brokers can play an important role in coffee supply chains by ensuring a constant supply of farmworkers, unscrupulous labor brokers may engage in unethical practices that put workers at risk, and at the same time create legal and reputational risks for coffee producers, traders, and roasters alike. Therefore, it is necessary that they put systems in place to identify and address potential risks related to labor recruitment in their supply chains. This tool contains background information on recruitment-related risks identified by Verité in the Latin American coffee sector, as well as information on concrete red flags related to recruitment in coffee supply chains and key steps that companies can take to address these risks.