ENVS 220 - Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains: Coffee

With global agricultural markets continuously evolving, the agricultural sector is constantly faced with challenges ranging from price volatility to persistent poverty. And With the effects of climate change quickly escalating, creating sustainable agricultural supply chains provide stakeholders an opportunity to address existing challenges while enhancing the resiliency and longevity of the sector as a whole. This course focuses one of the most well-known .global agricultural products, coffee. We will begin by examining the supply chain and the players involved and how climatic and environmental changes have been affecting this coffee production and the coffee market. While reviewing the current threats and challenges affecting the coffee sector, we will examine various companies and organization who are working toward solving these issues-by adopting and implementing sustainability standards. The course will conclude with a group project in which students examine and analyze a coffee business and provide suggestions on how to develop a more sustainable and resilient supply chains. CON2

3 credits