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Richard Anstead, managing director at Twin, accepts the 2018 SCA Sustainability Award from Kim Elena Ionescu
The Specialty Coffee Association recognized two programs as 2018 Sustainability Award winners during its Re:co Symposium in April.
Manos al Agua, a program of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia (FNC), received the Project Award for its work on intelligent water management at the farm and landscape level in Colombia’s coffee sector. The program is a private-public partnership between the FNC, Cenicafé, Nestlé, Nespresso, WUR, RVO and APC Colombia.
Twin, a non-governmental organization, received the Business Model Award for its innovative aid-through-trade model that markets and trades coffee from smallholder farmers in countries across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Twin won an SCA Sustainability Award in 2014 for its work in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
“The SCA has recognized outstanding work in the field of sustainability since 2004 and with every year we see greater diversity in the approaches that companies, organizations, and individuals take to confronting the challenges facing our industry,” SCA Chief Sustainability Officer Kim Elena Ionescu said in a statement. “This year’s awards reflect collaborations that happen across geographies, cultures and supply-chain roles, and I’m thrilled to be able to celebrate a kind of innovation that benefits all of us.”