Coffee beans are the main raw material for our coffee balls. Depending on their variety, they come from different production regions around the world: our beans come from Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Vietnam, India, Guatemala, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Kenya. We take our responsibility seriously, right from the growing stage. Every single coffee ball is Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade or Organic certified. With these sustainability certificates, we not only want to ensure that our coffee balls produce little waste, but also that they comply with socially and environmentally responsible criteria. Find out more about the different certificates for our coffee balls here.
What is the Rainforest Alliance?
Most coffee balls are Rainforest Alliance Certified. Others are labeled Organic or Fairtrade. The Rainforest Alliance is committed to more sustainable farming methods, ensuring a better future for people and nature.
Rainforest Alliance Certified producers adhere to strict standards of sustainable agriculture and manage their operations professionally. To achieve this, they are trained in cultivation methods that not only protect the environment, but also ensure more abundant harvests and thus higher incomes. Certified coffee growers thus actively contribute to environmental protection, notably by conserving natural resources, using fertilizers and plant protection products in smaller, more targeted quantities, and avoiding waste.
Certified coffee plantations are also required to meet minimum social standards: they support the development of decent wages, provide suitable accommodation and access to drinking water, sanitation and medical care. The Rainforest Alliance also promotes gender equality and fights discrimination and child labor.
What does Fairtrade mean?
Fairtrade stands for fair trade on equal terms with producers. The Fairtrade label identifies products that have been produced according to socially, ecologically and economically responsible standards. Thanks to Fairtrade, coffee producers benefit from minimum prices and a premium. To achieve this, producers must be organized into cooperatives. Fairtrade helps smallholders and workers to improve their living conditions on their own. Socially and environmentally responsible production and fair trading conditions are the cornerstones of this standard.
What does Bio mean?
The Bio label promotes the production of food in harmony with nature. The well-being of humans, animals and plants is as important to organic farmers as soil fertility, biodiversity and the respectful use of water. Genetically modified organisms are banned, and the use of additives and synthetic chemical ingredients is avoided. Soil, water and the environment are less affected. In principle, air transport is prohibited for Migros Organic products. Train and boat are preferred.
Our organic coffee balls are available with the Fairtrade label. This means that all our raw materials come from a socially, economically and ecologically sustainable supply chain.
To find out where some of our organic coffee comes from, read our article on Mamahuaca.