Summary
Across the coffee sector, many coffee producers and their families live well below recognized “living income” benchmarks. The Task Force for Coffee Living Income (TCLI) acknowledges this challenge and aims to answer a pivotal question: What are effective sourcing and pricing practices that coffee companies can adopt to help close the living income gap? This handbook is a summary of the full report from the TCLI and presents a framework for measuring the living income gap and outlines effective pricing and sourcing strategies for closing the gap. Recommendations are based on the case study of coffee producers in Colombia.