Colombia
- World's third-largest Arabica producer
- Key regions: Huila, Nariño, Antioquia
- Threats: temperature increase at altitude, shifting precipitation, leaf rust
Flagship project
The Coffee Initiative
A regional climate and social vulnerability assessment of the Latin American and Caribbean coffee sector — the first large-scale application of the SNPI framework, spanning five country case studies.
The initiative integrates satellite and environmental data with social network analysis across five country-level case studies. It is the first large-scale application of the SNPI framework, and the first assessment that treats social and environmental vulnerability as co-equal dimensions in the LAC coffee sector.
Regional reach, country-level depth
Regional reach, country-level depth
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Five country case studies
Each country on its own terms
Costa Rica
- Pioneering sustainability certifications
- Key regions: Tarrazú, West Valley, Central Valley
- Threats: reduced rainfall, rising temperatures at lower altitudes
El Salvador
- Focus of the 2024 transdisciplinary study
- Key regions: Apaneca-Ilamatepec, El Bálsamo
- Threats: drought, flooding, pest pressure, economic vulnerability
Guatemala
- Diverse microclimates across eight distinct regions
- Key regions: Antigua, Huehuetenango, Atitlán
- Threats: extreme weather events, water scarcity, highland vulnerability
Mexico
- One of the world's largest organic coffee producers
- Key regions: Chiapas, Veracruz, Oaxaca
- Threats: leaf rust epidemics, temperature shifts, smallholder vulnerability
The LAC–EU trade dimension
Evidence for compliance, not just curiosity
European buyers and regulators increasingly require supply chain transparency on embedded carbon emissions, ESG performance, and human-rights due diligence. EU regulation is moving from aspiration toward enforcement — and the coffee sector is squarely in scope.
Dialectik's integrated assessments provide the evidence base for compliance and for proactive risk management. Country-level vulnerability profiles, paired with stakeholder network performance scores, give procurement, sustainability, and risk teams a rigorous reference for their Latin American supply chain decisions — grounded in peer-reviewed methodology and conducted by regional researchers.
Understanding the LAC–EU coffee trade relationship through both a social and an environmental lens — the combination buyers and regulators now need.
Infrastructure for impact
We strengthen the work of implementing organizations
We produce research and intelligence that strengthens the work of organizations like TechnoServe, Solidaridad, and national coffee institutes. We are not competing with implementing organizations — we are providing the evidence base they need, so that their programs can be targeted more effectively and their results more robustly evaluated.