Coffee growers look to postpone EU deforestation requirement

The world’s top coffee body is set to request that the European Union postpone a requirement that imported beans come from areas not linked with deforestation, the group’s head said on Wednesday. “We can’t meet that date, it is not possible,” said Vanusia Nogueira, director of the International Coffee Organization (ICO), in an interview. The ICO, a United Nations-linked intergovernmental group, represents more than 90% of coffee production and more than 60% of consumption worldwide.