It is a cooperative located in the province of San Ignacio, Department of Cajamarca, Peru. It was created on November 25, 2001, and was born from the integration of 106 producing families with the purpose of marketing coffee directly, avoiding intermediation and improving productivity and coffee quality.
Unicafec began its activities without the support of any state or private entity, without resources, based on a lot of management by its leaders and founding members. Since its inception, the organic coffee program was implemented in 2002. In 2005, Fair Trade certification was obtained.
In 2008, the fertilizer program with organic inputs was implemented to increase the productivity and quality of coffee per hectare, helping to improve the quality of life of member families.
Currently UNICAFEC has 385 members, of whom 104 are women and 281 men, belonging to the Districts of San Ignacio, District of San José de Lourdes and District of Namballe.