IDH Launches Regenerative Coffee Investment Platform
Daily Coffee News Staff| August 13, 2026 At the RCP launch. IDH press photo. The Netherlands-based Sustainable Trade InitiativeIDHhas launched a four-year program designed to promote what it called a regenerative and verifiable coffee supply chain across four major producing countries. Announced at a sustainable coffee roundtable in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Aug. 11, theResilient Coffee Program (RCP)is designed as a pre-competitive investment platform with the ambitious goal of reaching 300,000 farmers by 2030. The initiative is currently focused on four major coffee-producing countries — Vietnam, India, Colombia and Uganda — with a goal of generating approximately 500,000 metric tons of “regenerative coffee” annually. Discount supermarket giantAldi Süd Groupwas named as the frontrunner investor in the platform. Financial terms of the Aldi investment were not disclosed. “A resilient coffee sector cannot be built by any one company, or any one country, alone,” Daan Wensing, CEO of IDH, said in an announcement of the launch. “Climate pressure, shifting market expectations and the need to support farmers all call for a different approach — one built on collaboration and shared investment.” The announcement said that RCP is open to additional roasters, traders, governments and financiers “seeking to strengthen resilient coffee value chains through shared investment” in the program’s four coffee origins. In Vietnam, the program is targeting roughly 75,000 coffee farmers over the next four years, representing about 10% of the country’s coffee-growing households and 14% of the country’s coffee area, according to IDH. IDH said the program will use the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform’sRegenerating Together Framework, an industry-developed framework meant to help food and beverage companies define, measure and verify regenerative agriculture efforts. The program also includes shared systems for measurement, reporting, verification, traceability and “co-claiming,” according to IDH. The organization said those systems are intended to allow participating companies to measure,
Daily Coffee News Staff| August 13, 2026 At the RCP launch.
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