Through our investments and commitment to buying our coffee from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, STōK works with farmers to reduce their impact on deforestation and climate change. The Rainforest Alliance will not certify any farms on land that has been deforested in the last 8 years.
We support hands-on training for coffee farmers to learn more sustainable farming practices, and have backed projects to plant trees on coffee farms, reduce coffee farm impacts on water resources, and promote climate-smart agriculture. To date, we’ve helped plant over 7,000 native trees on coffee farms to support shade, soil health and biodiversity. We also supported 25 small projects to promote water conservation and treatment.
Finally, we aided the planting of over 16,000 new coffee seedlings to replace varieties that are less adapted to the likely impacts of climate change.