Daterra: The World’s First B Corp-Certified Coffee Farm

What Daterra actually grows

Daterra is a specialty coffee farm in Brazil’s Cerrado region, near Patrocínio, Minas Gerais — founded in 1993 and now marking over 30 years of production. It grows, processes and sells green coffee across three tiers (Masterpieces, Collection Daterra, Daterra Classics) using its own Penta Process®, a proprietary post-harvest method built to protect cup quality and reduce environmental impact at the same time.

“We spent a lot of time trying different coffees, but we also spent time discussing what being a B Corp means to each of us.”

Isabela Pascoal Becker, Sustainability Director, Daterra

Where the certification trail runs deep

• World’s first B Corp–certified coffee farm, with a B Impact Score of 88.0 against a median of 50.9 for ordinary businesses
• Brazil’s first Rainforest Alliance–certified farm, alongside UTZ Kapeh and IBD Organic certification
• Certified carbon negative, with a public commitment to plant 3 million trees by 2030 for Cerrado ecosystem regeneration

Proof, not just claims

Daterra’s coffee is bought and roasted by named specialty buyers rather than sold as an anonymous commodity lot — among them Equator Coffees, a Bay Area roaster with eight retail locations, sourced through importer Sustainable Harvest specifically for its B Corp-to-B Corp supply chain.

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Why this belongs on a sustainability directory

Coffee farming is routinely tied to deforestation pressure in tropical regions; Daterra’s model — carbon-negative certification, a 3-million-tree pledge, and Brazil’s first Rainforest Alliance farm status — runs directly against that pattern in one of the country’s most biodiverse and threatened biomes. That is the concrete link between a single Cerrado farm and SDG 13 (Climate Action) and SDG 15 (Life on Land), with SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) covering the Penta Process’s lower-impact post-harvest method.