Mondelēz International to Invest $200M in Coffee Sustainability Initiative

Mondelēz International, Inc. MDLZ today announced an expanded effort to make its coffee business more sustainable.  "Coffee Made Happy" will invest a minimum of $200 million to empower one million coffee farming entrepreneurs by 2020.  The program is designed to help the next generation of farmers -- inspiring, training and building their capacity to improve their livelihoods and attract new generations back to the small-scale farming sector.  The approach reflects Mondelēz International's core values and builds on its previous commitment to sustainably source 100 percent of its European coffee by 2015.