Fairtrade International and India’s Black Baza Coffee Co. are the winners of the Specialty Coffee Association‘s (SCA) 2025 Sustainability Awards.
The United States- and Europe-based SCA announced the winners ahead of its flagship U.S. event, the Specialty Coffee Expo, taking place April 25-27 in Houston.
Find DCN’s complete 2025 SCA Expo coverage here.
In an announcement of the 2025 awards, SCA Sustainability Director Andrés Montenegro praised both organizations for their ability to “embrace change, navigate complexity, and generate scalable solutions.”
Fairtrade International, based in Bonn, Germany, is the owner of the Fairtrade mark, which for more than three decades has been a symbol for fair and equitable trade of global goods such as coffee. The organization, which recently named a new CEO, Lis Prassack, is the SCA Sustainability winner in the “nonprofit” category.
Black Baza, a Bangalore, India-based coffee roaster and self-described “activist company” that invests deeply in coffee producers and biodiversity initiatives, is the winner in the “for profit” category.
The SCA enlisted 12 outside experts, plus two SCA staff, to help determine the awards this year. More information on both winners can be found here.
The SCA Sustainability Awards date back to 2004 with the Specialty Coffee Association of America, which merged with the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe in 2017 to form the SCA.
The awards categories and criteria have changed numerous times over the years. 2025 marks the second year straight in which the winners were identified as organizations in “for profit” and “nonprofit” categories. Prior to that, the program awarded a business model, a program and an individual.
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