Fair Trade USA获60万美元grant：为咖啡可可农民建气候数据工具，目标覆盖3000名农民
美国非营利认证机构 Fair Trade USA 11月2日宣布，获得 Patrick J. McGovern Foundation 60万美元 grant，用于为农产品生产者建设一套汇集气候、市场与生产成果信息的数据工具，帮助农民据此规划生产与投资。项目期为2026年9月至2027年9月。
生产者组织在日常经营中产生大量环境、社会与经济数据，但这些数据往往分散在各自系统里、难以取用，也很少以农民能直接行动的形式回到生产者手里。新工具将把 Fair Trade USA 的认证记录、审核结果、社区发展基金投资数据与开源气候数据，同生产者提交的文件、图片、语音与故事结合起来，输出季节性气候展望、市场信号、农艺指导与优先行动建议，并由该机构的驻地团队协助送达。
这套工具建基于2026年与哥伦比亚咖啡农合作的 Nature Intelligence Dashboard 试点：该看板把开源的土壤、作物与生物多样性数据转成指导与行动计划。新项目将由秘鲁、科特迪瓦与哥伦比亚的咖啡、可可与香蕉生产者领袖通过工作坊与回访共同设计，并制定生产者数据所有权与同意规则，明确合作社自己的数据首先服务生产者本人。
Fair Trade USA 首席执行官 Felipe Arango 说，过去几年该机构一直在推动数据民主化，让生产者成为保障未来供应链、提升当下产量与收入的变革主角，这笔 grant 将把这一愿景做成农民手中的工具。McGovern 基金会主席 Vilas Dhar 说，农民在气候与市场变化中做着高风险决策，却不总能获得与买家同等的信息，这套工具让合作社更清楚地取用自己的气候、市场与成果数据。
按计划，到2027年9月，项目将覆盖三大产地至少10家合作社、惠及约3,000名农民，工具将在2027年4月的 World of Coffee 与 Fair Trade Impact Fair 上向生产者、出口商与买家分享。Fair Trade USA 目前在52个国家与120万名生产者伙伴合作。
Fair Trade USA Receives $600,000 Grant: Climate Data Tool for Coffee and Cocoa Farmers Aims to Reach 3,000 Farmers
Fair Trade USA, a U.S. nonprofit certifier, announced on November 2 a $600,000 grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation to build a data tool that helps farmers plan and invest using climate, market, and outcome information. The project, for Producer Intelligence Infrastructure for Ethical and Regenerative Supply Chains, runs from September 2026 through September 2027.
Producer organizations generate valuable environmental, social, and economic information, but it often sits fragmented across internal systems, is difficult to access, and rarely reaches producers in a form they can act on. The new platform combines Fair Trade USA's certification records, audit findings, Community Development Fund investments, and open-source climate data with producer-submitted documents, images, voice recordings, and stories, returning decision-grade insights such as seasonal climate outlooks, market signals, agronomic guidance, and prioritized actions, with delivery supported by Fair Trade's on-the-ground staff.
The tool builds on the Nature Intelligence Dashboard, a previous project implemented with Colombian coffee farmers in 2026 that translated open-source soil, crop, and biodiversity data into guidance and action plans. Producers will co-design the new tool through workshops and follow-up visits with coffee, cocoa, and banana producer leaders in Peru, Cote d'Ivoire, and Colombia. Fair Trade USA will also formalize guidelines for producer data ownership and consent, on the principle that a cooperative's own data should serve the producer first.
For the last several years, we have been on a journey of democratizing data so that producers are best equipped to be the protagonists of change, said Felipe Arango, CEO of Fair Trade USA, adding that the grant will build the tools to unlock that vision. Vilas Dhar, President of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, said farmers are making high-stakes decisions as climate conditions and markets shift, but do not always have access to the same information as the buyers they sell to.
By September 2027, Fair Trade USA aims to reach at least 10 cooperatives across coffee, cocoa, and bananas in three origins, with a broader reach of 3,000 farmers. The tools will be shared among producers, exporters, and buyers at the World of Coffee and Fair Trade's Impact Fair in April 2027. Fair Trade USA works with 1.2 million producer partners in 52 countries.
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图片来源：图：哥伦比亚 Hacienda Guayabal 咖啡园里结着红绿果实的咖啡枝。Bernard Gagnon 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Coffee berries at Hacienda Guayabal, Colombia. Photo by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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