Technology and Innovation

Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers uses technology to connect supply chain partners and create a more sustainable coffee supply chain. Sustainable Harvest created a proprietary, computerized tracking software to manage the logistics of our supply chain and increase transparency in our business operations. Today, Sustainable Harvest continues to build on this original initiative by using radio frequency technology and computerized systems to trace coffee from various cooperatives. These traceability systems help farmers find added value and new market niches for their coffees, for example giving them the tools to distinguish lots as single-origin or women-only produced specialty coffees.

Sustainable Harvest invests in the power of technology to bring business partners together and create new access to training and market information. Using videos, podcasts, and other multi-media formats, Sustainable Harvest tells the stories of producers and communities from coffee origins to share the impact of the Relationship Coffee model on all supply chain partners. In Tanzania, Sustainable Harvest is partnering with companies like Intel to equip coffee warehouses with new wireless internet technologies for the first time, providing the farmers with unprecedented connectivity to their roaster partners and new access to market information and training materials.