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Several organizations have established fair trade principles for growers, environmentally sensitive farming practices and fair wages for employees. However, the coffee supply chain has multiple steps, including harvesting, processing, packing, shipping, exporting/importing, blending, and roasting. Each participant tracks only their link in the chain and data from each step is siloed, making it difficult to track the source of the beans.
IBM announces app at CES 2020 that tracks coffee bean from farm to cup