Methodologies

The shadow coffee PEFCR offers sector-specific guidance to help coffee companies produce transparent, reliable environmental footprint studies that meet EU standards and drive sustainability across the supply chain.

Multiple cropping is a practice, where a plot of land is subsequently planted with varying crops and harvested multiple times in a year. In the Land Use Change (LUC) methodology this has not been considered yet, leading to inaccurate LUC emission calculations. Therefore, we’ve investigated the opportunities to include multiple cropping and make more fair calculations, by applying the ‘Crop System Efficiency Index’.