Regenerative Agriculture and Living Income: New Evidence From Coffee, Lessons for Every Sector

Regenerative agriculture is one of the most promising pathways to raise and stabilize smallholder farmer incomes. This webinar presents two new papers showing how regenerative agriculture can meaningfully narrow the gap to a living income, while recognizing that it cannot close that gap for every household on its own. Both studies are rooted in the coffee sector, with lessons that reach well beyond coffee.

• Paul Stewart from TechnoServe will present a paper, developed in partnership with Sustainable Food Lab, that adds a living income lens to TechnoServe's Regenerative Coffee Investment Case. The paper frames the mutually reinforcing relationship between income and regenerative agriculture and includes quantitative modelling of how regenerative practice adoption narrows the living income gap for typical coffee farming households in seven origins.
• Haki Pamuk and Valerie Janssen from Wageningen Social & Economic Research will present a paper examining how and when advanced coffee farm management can narrow the living income gap for coffee farmers. Using Enveritas' global data, the paper finds that regenerative practices offer the strongest income pathway in some origins, while capital-intensive approaches perform best in others.

The webinar will include a facilitated discussion of these papers’ findings followed by an extended opportunity for audience Q&A.