A blueprint for climate-smart coffee: Meet Uganda’s climate heroes

What if the coffee you drink could help tackle the climate crisis and support smallholder farmers to build more resilient livelihoods?

That’s the vision behind the Climate Heroes programme, developed by Solidaridad and Fairfood, with support of the Postcode Loterij, and powered on the ground by our partners at Ndugu. Together, we’ve piloted a new approach to help companies meet their Scope 3 emissions targets in a transparent, verifiable way. A new case study shares early insights from the pilot, and explores the value for businesses working towards truly sustainable supply chains.

Making carbon claims verifiable: The tech behind the transition

Fairfood’s role in this programme is all about turning bold sustainability claims into verifiable action. Our traceability platform Trace and due diligence tool Navigate link real-time farmer data to specific coffee batches—substantiating claims like “deforestation-free” or “living income” with actual supply chain data.

By making carbon credits traceable to actual farming practices, we’re helping to build trust in a fast-growing market, and ensuring that more value flows back to the farmers who make climate-smart practices possible. But it doesn’t stop there: farmers, cooperatives, and local exporters are finally equipped with data, to integrate these insights into sustainable agricultural practices, negotiate better contracts, and gain an active role in the transition.

Learn how this model works, and how we’ve already connected 353 MT of CO₂ removals to Ugandan coffee lots.