Corporate Social Responsibility
Fair for All
Aribica not only offers a fresh, delicious and convenient way to enjoy your daily high-quality coffee; we also offer an ethical way.
We are committed to fair payment at every stage of the supply chain. We have transparency, sustainability and ethical supply as core principles, which means we promise to always pay our suppliers fairly.
Our Mission
We ethically source the tastiest coffee beans from across the globe to make our blends, and work hard to ensure that sustainability remains at the heart of everything we do. We bring you fair trade and organic coffee wherever possible, never cutting corners or compromising on the quality of our beans.
Many Aribicacoffees are organic and biologically certified, which means that there are no chemical fertilizers or chemical/synthetic pesticides are used. Unfortunately, fully certified organic farming is not always possible. The certification costs a lot of money for some coffee farmers while they produce wonderful coffee.
We believe it is important that our coffee farmers also treat nature with respect, beyond the coffee plants. Take the Hartmann family, for example: The Birdsong coffee they produce owes its name to the many birds that nest on the plantation, including in the coffee bushes. More than 280 species have been spotted by birdwatchers! Many coffee farmers have forests with many varieties of trees in addition to the plantation.
Our Vision
Protecting the Future
None of us are perfect, and we are always looking for ways to improve. We review our packaging, processes and supply chains on a frequent basis, and we’d love to hear from you if you have any suggestions as to how we could do even better.
All of our packaging is 100% recyclable. To maintain the freshness of coffee, an aluminum film or a layer of evaporated aluminum is used in many coffee packages. These materials are not recyclable and therefore have to be disposed of in the residual waste. With our packaging, we use a more environmentally friendly material that is very good at preserving freshness and is recyclable. During the high-profile 'Nordic World of Coffee' in Gothenburg (Sweden), this packaging won the award for the New Packaging Solution. The packaging was also nominated in 2016 for the NL Packaging Award in the consumer innovation category.
All departments at Aribica also pay attention to waste. We have this collected, picked up and recycled separately.
Sustainability
Aribica coffee stands for respect for nature, the coffee farmer and the product. We strive to make the (coffee) world a better place.
A fair price for the farmer and quality in your cup
We import as much as possible one-to-one Direct Trade. In this way, the farmer receives 30% to 50% more than the usual Fair Trade coffee prices. We like personal contact and believe in long-term relationships, not only with our coffee drinkers but also with our suppliers. We therefore select our own plantations and in this way have direct contact with the coffee farmers. Quality improvement and mentioning the name of the coffee farmer means a better price for the farmer. Their name is therefore prominently displayed on the labels of our coffee. In exchanging knowledge with them but also by paying a fair, good price, we contribute to improving living conditions on the plantation and in the region. In this way, you can enjoy the best freshly roasted arabica coffee harvests and they can enjoy increasingly better education and housing.
We participate in the Futureproof Coffee Collective project in collaboration with MVO and MVO Nederland. We support coffee farmers in the Kachalu cooperative in Colombia, who are piloting with the "Real Pricing Tool". This model allows you to understand the cost of coffee (if social and environmental costs are included).
