Certificates
KPD Coffee guarantees:
- No chemical fertilizers
- No pesticides
- No genetic-modified organisms
- Environmental protection plans and activities for soil, water and air
- Minimizing water and energy consumption
- Shade-grown
- Forest and species protection
- No primeval-forest clearing
- No illegal child labour
- No discrimination of workforce
- Protection of workers and their rights
- Fixed Fairtradeprices and premium payments for organic production
- Healthcare and retirement program for workers
- Investments in community projects
- Investments in quality and productivity issues
Auditors: We invest in financial and business transparency to ensure our customers of our reliability.
We are controlled/certified/monitored/audited by the following organisations:
- IMO - Institute for Market Ecology (Switzerland)
- Fairtrade International (Germany)
- 4 C Association (Germany)
- ROOT Capital (USA)
- FEFISOL Microfinance Fund (European Investment Bank - Belgium)
- Shared interest (Ethical Investment Co-operative - UK)
- In the near future we will be audited by ONE of the following international financial Auditors: PWC, KPMG, DELOITTE
Employees:
We work with many international volunteers in different fields in our KADERES program. These international volunteers from Europe, United States of America, Asia and East-Africa support us in ensuring best practices, high quality standards, sustainable management and international marketing.