Ethiopia’s coffee and cut flower producers struggle to comply with new EU regulations

Ethiopia’s coffee and cut flower industries face significant challenges due to new EU regulations. From January 2025, producers must comply with the bloc’s Due Diligence Act, which imposes strict environmental standards on exports to Europe. Millions of small coffee farmers will have to prove their land is free from deforestation, while flower farmers will have to deal with a pest that threatens European markets or risk being banned from trade. This is of great concern to Ethiopia, which exports 30 percent of its coffee and 8 percent of its flowers to Europe. Adhering to these new EU standards will be a difficult task, as FRANCE 24’s Clothilde Hazard and Olivia Bizot report.



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