Lesson-76531-9

Unless a specific program or activity is specifically designed to reach the most vulnerable groups involved in the coffee supply chain, the project will not reach them. By focusing on smallholder producers, the project excluded some of the most vulnerable migrant workers. This situation happened not by design but by default because the project worked with existing private sector projects, certifiers, and organized groups of smallholder farmers (cooperatives). The small-scale producers in Colombia were less likely to hire migrant workers, and smallholders in Brazil were less reliant on migrants hired through labor brokers.