Climate Change Mitigation in Agroforest Landscapes through Sustainable Sourcing Policies (CAFSUS)

The sustainable development goal 15.2 calls for global action to end deforestation and restore degraded forests, which is key to reducing the adverse impacts of climate events. A recently issued EU deforestation regulation (EUDR) restricts import of commodities and products associated with deforestation, including coffee.

As the world’s second largest coffee exporter selling about 45% of its total coffee production to the EU, Vietnam is likely to be significantly affected by the EUDR.

CAFSUS examines the implications of the EUDR for: landscape cover, household livelihoods, value chain structures, and systems of global environmental governance applying the advanced social and data science methods to high-resolution satellite and primary data from the coffee value chain.

We ask: How effective is the EUDR in reducing deforestation, thereby contributing to climate change mitigation? How does the EUDR affect wellbeing and livelihood resilience of different categories of smallholder coffee-growing households? How are the EUDR requirements reshaping strategies and practices in the commercial coffee value chain (in both the EU and Vietnam)? How is the EUDR interacting with other pre-existing mechanisms of environmental governance in the Vietnamese coffee sector to shape environmental outcomes?