With a global footprint of 10 million hectares across 12.5 million farms, coffee is among the world’s most traded commodities. The coffee industry has launched a variety of initiatives designed to reduce coffee’s contribution to climate change and biodiversity loss and enhance the socio-economic conditions of coffee producers. We systematically reviewed the literature on the sustainability and governance of coffee production and developed a typology of eleven sustainability initiatives. Our review shows that coffee sustainability research has focused primarily on the economic outcomes of certification schemes. The typology expands our knowledge of novel sustainability initiatives being led by coffee farming communities themselves, allowing for an improved consideration of power dynamics in sustainability governance. Sustainability initiatives governed by local actors can improve sustainability outcomes by empowering local decision makers to assess direct risks and benefits of sustainable practices to the local environment, economy, and culture.

咖啡在全球拥有 1,250 万个农场，占地 1,000 万公顷，是世界上交易量最大的商品之一。咖啡行业发起了各种举措，旨在减少咖啡对气候变化和生物多样性丧失的影响，并改善咖啡生产者的社会经济条件。我们系统地回顾了有关咖啡生产的可持续性和治理的文献，并制定了十一项可持续性举措的类型。我们的审查表明，咖啡可持续性研究主要关注认证计划的经济成果。这种类型扩展了我们对咖啡种植社区本身主导的新颖可持续发展举措的了解，从而可以更好地考虑可持续发展治理中的权力动态。由当地参与者管理的可持续发展举措可以通过授权当地决策者评估可持续实践对当地环境、经济和文化的直接风险和效益来改善可持续发展成果。