KOLTIVA Empowers Digital Traceability for Sustainable Coffee: Over 25,000 Coffee Farmers Across the Americas Digitally Validated
- Gusi Ayu Putri Chandrika Sari
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Switzerland, Jakarta, 10th April 2025 - Climate change continues to disrupt coffee-growing regions across the globe. Rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, and severe droughts are diminishing the suitability of traditional coffee landscapes—threatening both crop productivity and the livelihoods of farming communities.
In response, digital transformation is reshaping the agricultural sector. Leading sustainability initiatives are leveraging technology to drive transparency, boost operational efficiency, and build long-term resilience. At the forefront of this transformation is KOLTIVA, a Swiss-Indonesian AgriTech company, which has digitally validated over 25,274 coffee producers across eight Latin American countries—including Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Guatemala, and Colombia.
This milestone reflects Koltiva’s growing impact in scaling traceable, sustainable sourcing initiatives across the global coffee value chain.
“Sustainability begins with visibility,” said Silvan Ziegler, Senior Head of Markets America at Koltiva. “KoltiTrace is more than a digital tool—it’s a data-driven transformation that empowers farmers, agronomists, and companies to make informed, impactful decisions that drive real change.”
KoltiTrace: Enabling Informed & Inclusive Sustainability Programs
KoltiTrace is Koltiva’s end-to-end traceability platform, designed to strengthen sustainable sourcing through real-time data collection, validation, and analytics. It enables detailed monitoring of farm-level practices, environmental impacts, and social outcomes—delivering critical insights that inform and improve sustainability program design.
Key capabilities of KotiTrace include:
Collecting and validating data on farmer practices, environmental performance, and social criteria.
Monitoring compliance with sustainability and certification standards
Tracking regenerative agriculture practices and productivity trends at the farm level.
Promoting gender equality and inclusive farmer engagement through data disaggregation.
Generating actionable insights to improve program design and impact.
In addition to reducing manual errors and improving field efficiency, KoltiTrace provides farmers and agronomists with a clear view of compliance status and areas for improvement—ensuring sustainability goals are practical, measurable, and grounded in the realities of farming communities.
Data-Driven Solutions for Sustainable Coffee Traceability
Koltiva's digital ecosystem includes a suite of tools tailored to meet the needs of various actors across the supply chain. These include:
FarmXtension - a mobile app for agronomists and field teams to register farmers, collect sustainability data, and map farm boundaries.
FarmGate - an application for tracking transactions and supply chain interactions.
FarmCloud - a farmer-facing app offering access to personalized insights, farm management tools, and learning resources.
KoltiSkills - Koltiva complements its digital tools with in-person technical assistance, polygon mapping for deforestation risk analysis, and agronomic training to build farmer capacity.
Together, these tools support seamless data capture and real-time decision-making across the supply chain, enhancing visibility and driving scalable, inclusive sustainability interventions.
Building a Transparent and Resilient Coffee Sector
Koltiva’s work validating over 25,000 coffee producers in the Americas highlights the critical role of digital tools in bridging the gap between sustainability ambitions and field-level implementation. The company’s data systems support clients in embedding sustainability into their sourcing strategies, ensuring that environmental and social impact is verifiable, scalable, and continuously improving.
As a member of the Swiss Sustainable Coffee Platform (SSCP), Koltiva actively contributes to the development of global best practices for ethical sourcing and sustainable production. Through collaborative efforts with industry stakeholders, Koltiva helps advance harmonized frameworks that strengthen farmer resilience and environmental stewardship.
Sustainability Through Visibility and Collaboration
At Koltiva, we believe that true sustainability starts with data transparency and inclusive collaboration. By equipping supply chain actors with timely, accurate information and translating that data into tangible action, we’re helping to shape a coffee sector that is not only more sustainable—but more equitable and resilient.
As we continue to support clients in achieving their environmental, social, and compliance goals, KoltiTrace remains a powerful driver of digital transformation—helping build a better future for farming communities and ecosystems alike.
About KOLTIVA Offering human-centered technology and boots-on-the-ground solutions that digitize agribusinesses and help smallholder producers transition to sustainable practices and traceable sourcing, KOLTIVA is recognized as the leading global sustainable agriculture and supply chain traceability company. As a global technology provider, it constructs ethical, transparent, and sustainable supply chains, assisting enterprises in fortifying their resilience and transparency. The company helps businesses, and their suppliers comply with ever-changing regulations and consumer demands worldwide with traceability solutions. Operating in more than 66 countries and fortified by a network of customer support offices in 20 countries, KOLTIVA is committed to supporting over 17,500 enterprises in establishing transparent and robust supply chains while empowering over 1,738,000 producers to increase their annual income. www.koltiva.com
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