These conscientious coffee roasters are putting environmentally friendly measures in place in hopes of combatting climate change.

Civil Eats: 10 of the Most Sustainable Coffee Businesses in the United States

Pachamama Coffee Cooperative, a fair-trade company, is redefining the scope of “direct-trade” coffee.

Wine Spectator: The Mother of Direct-Trade Coffee

Although global sales of chocolate amount to some $75 billion a year, growers capture only a tiny fraction of this: around $4 billion a year from the sale of cocoa beans.

The Economist: Thinking out of the Box

The movement made a shift from the locavore to the global with CoffeeCSA.org — the first large-scale coffee C.S.A. created by the Pachamama Coffee Cooperative

The New York Times: Community Agriculture Goes Global With Coffee

With a Coffee CSA, your harvest is predictable -- you choose a coffee region and contract online with a farmer, for a minimum of two pounds of coffee per month. 

GreenBiz: Coffee Farmers Eliminate the Middle Man

Pachamama Coffee Cooperative, based in Davis, Calif., is owned by farmers in Latin America and Africa. After the coffee is roasted in the United States and sold, all profits go back to the farmers.

The New York Times: Coffee's Economics Rewritten by Farmers

At Pachamama, the farmers have control of the pricing, and it happens in the boardroom. Tremain believes, “If you claim to represent the farmer there should be farmers in your board room. If you are selling to empower farmers, you should have them represented.”

SCA News: Vertical Integration in the Coffee Supply Chain

Meanwhile, a string of tiny players like Pachamama, Doi Chaang, and Cafedirect aims to lift up farmers by giving them company ownership.

Fortune: Equity for Coffee Farmers