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A palm oil plantation in Indonesia. Market leakage — sellers shifting EU-bound commodities to other less regulated markets — could undermine the effectiveness of the EUDR in some supply chains.

The EU proposes delaying anti-deforestation law, again

Bobby Bascomb 23 Sep 2025
A cocoa pod opened by hand. Exclusion of smallholder farmers from markets, a potential consequence of the EUDR, could result in loss of income leading to environmental harms but also exacerbate existing problems including child labor on cocoa farms. “These risks are known,” says Rainforest Alliance’s Fanny Gauttier. “That's something that we have highlighted many times.”

EUDR implementation comes laden with potential unintended consequences

Sean Mowbray 4 Sep 2025
Sifting coffee beans in Porciuncula, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

‘Insignificant risk’ EUDR proposal threatens fight against deforestation, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jul 2025
Banner image of a cup of coffee by shixugang via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).

A better brew: How regenerative coffee could root out exploitation

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2025
A cup of coffee with beans and a teaspoon on a stump tabletop. Image by Anja (cocoparisiene) from Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).

Soaring coffee prices are fueled by deforestation, but solutions exist

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Jun 2025
A traditional shade-grown coffee plantation in the Western Ghats. Image by Anand Osuri via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Seeds rescued from India’s coffee farms could help forest restoration

Mongabay.com 8 May 2025

Mongabay reports fuel petition to block US import of coffee tied to slave labor

Bobby Bascomb 30 Apr 2025
Bernardo Vallejo inspects in Finca Las Brisas. Image © Victor Raison.

Colombia’s coffee farmers try to balance innovation and tradition to adapt to climate change

Victor Raison 1 Apr 2025
CTPH also supports alternative livelihoods through a social enterprise, Gorilla Conservation Coffee, which supports and markets premium coffee grown by farmers near Bwindi. Image courtesy of Jo-Anne McArthur.

Coffee companies are readier for the EUDR than they claim (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 25 Feb 2025

Coffee agroforestry promises a path to EUDR compliance, but challenges remain

Marina Martinez 26 Dec 2024

Agribusiness giant Olam gets head start on EUDR; its suppliers, not so much

Aimee Gabay 24 Dec 2024

Parties gutting EUDR received donations from companies tied to illegal deforestation: Report

Aimee Gabay 15 Nov 2024

225 NGOs call on EU to reject delay to deforestation law

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2024
Women make up a considerable proportion of the coffee farmers in the area.

Coffee agroforestry holds promise for smallholder growers in Malawi

Charles Mpaka 7 Oct 2024
Cattle raising in recently destroyed forestland in the municipality Aripuanã, in Mato Grosso state.

Biden Administration mistakenly seeks delay of EU’s new deforestation regulation (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 13 Aug 2024
Coffee bean harvesting in Yangambi DRC. Image courtesy of Axel Fassio/CIFOR_ICRAF

Study highlights environmental and economic benefits of agroforestry for DRC coffee crops

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Aug 2024

First-ever video of Amazon weasel recorded in Bolivia

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2024
Coffee beans on a plant.

As coffee expands in Bangladesh hills, conservationists worry about ecosystems

Abu Siddique 21 May 2024
The red siskin.

Shade-grown coffee benefits birds, forests & people in Venezuela

James Hall 14 May 2024
Cattle in a deforested patch of Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Indonesian palm oil, Brazilian beef top contributors to U.S. deforestation exposure

Liz Kimbrough 7 May 2024
Rotten coffee in Jember as a result of the long drought in 2023.

Harsh dry season sours harvest prospects for Java coffee farmers

Moh. Tamimi 26 Feb 2024
Sumber Makmur Farmers’ Collective's seed nursery.

Sumatra coffee farmers brew natural fertilizer as inflation bites

Themmy Doaly 4 Jan 2024
A coffee cup with beans. Photo by Lotus Head/Wikimedia Commons

U.S. and U.K. lawmakers must wake up to the coffee problem (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 21 Dec 2023

Indigenous Suruí turn invaders’ crop into high-quality Amazonian coffee

Patricia Moll 24 Oct 2023

How climate change could jeopardize Brazilian coffee

Rachel Brabbins 11 Oct 2023
Coffee growers in Vietnam

EU deforestation-free rule ‘highly challenging’ for SE Asia smallholders, experts say

Carolyn Cowan 20 Sep 2023
The cat-sized Philippine palm civet (Paradoxurus philippinensis).

Philippine tribe boosts livelihoods and conservation with civet poop coffee

Bong S. Sarmiento 18 Apr 2023
Scarlet tanager. Photo by Jen Goellnitz via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Shade-grown coffee won’t support all birds, but adding a forest helps: Study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jul 2022
Arabica coffee growing under a shade of trees. Image courtesy of Noel Rojo.

Farmers in Mexico fight coffee disease with resistant varieties and agroforestry

Magdaléna Rojo 15 Jun 2022
A coffee seedling nursery at Yayu, with forest in background.

Coal mining threatens Ethiopia’s ancient coffee forest

Kaleab Girma 14 Jun 2022

Tree kangaroos may be key to New Guinea forest conservation

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Mar 2022

To cooperatively stop deforestation for commodities, navigating ‘legal’ vs ‘zero’ is key (commentary)

Michael Wolosin 9 Mar 2022

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