Coffee Collective's Klaus Thomsen on creating sustainability and transparency across the coffee supply chain

Klaus Thomsen is one of the Founders of Coffee Collective. Their goal is to explore and unfold exceptional coffee experiences, in a manner thatgives better living conditions to coffee farmers across the globe. For nearly, 15 years they have been pushing the coffee industry to do business differently. In this episode, we discuss their many initiatives from transparently sharing what they pay for coffee to going carbon neutral by 2022. Their dream is for a coffee farmer in Kenya to obtain the same status and living conditions as a winegrower in France. 

11:30 What creates great taste across the supply chain

19:30 Paying farmer's a fair price 

24:00 Direct trade and opening up the books for transparency

33:00 Creating a market for specialty coffee

50:30 Going carbon neutral by 2022

Episode Transcript

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