The concept for COSA was originally developed in 2005 as a project of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the United Nations International Trade Centre (ITC) and was focused on the coffee sector [REF].
In 2008, the UNCTAD COSA project published "Seeking Sustainability: COSA Preliminary Analysis of Sustainability Initiatives in the Coffee Sector" [REF].