Archives: Cooperativas

La Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera Laguna de Los Cóndores es una organización social con ámbito de acción en la Provincia de Luya, región Amazonas, zona norte del Perú. Fue creada por 12 personas productoras de café, en el distrito de Providencia (Luya) el 03 de enero del 2017.

Actualmente la forman 800 familias productoras de café, de las cuales son 243 mujeres y 557 las personas asociadas.

La cooperativa tiene como finalidad buscar el desarrollo colectivo de las familias productoras de café, creando modelos de comercio directo con cooperativas productoras en Europa o Estados Unidos.

La organización se centra en el desarrollo social y económico de las familias asociadas y las comunidades en las que se desarrollan. Se trabaja en la formación de sus socias y la mejora continua que garantice la sostenibilidad del proceso. Además, se ofrece asistencia técnica, certificación y comercialización, involucrando a las personas productoras.

Las fincas de las socias se encuentran ubicadas en altitudes desde 1200 m.s.n.m. hasta 2200 m.s.n.m. Estas altitudes nos permiten tener variedades (Typica, Caturra, Bourbon, Catuaí, Villa Sarchi) con alta productividad en algunas zonas y alta calidad en otras, ofertando cafés de entre 82 y 86 puntos SCA.

Uca San Juan del Rio Coco, R.L. is a union of 8 cooperatives, which associates 370 producers, of which 80 are women and 290 are men.

Its objective is to promote the economic and social development of the associated cooperatives and their members through the production and marketing of economically profitable and ecologically responsible coffee.

It invests in improving internal capacities through courses and workshops to develop actions and strategies (especially marketing and financial) to ensure the success of the operation.

Work is currently underway on a cupping laboratory that will enable UCA SJRC to profile the quality of the coffee it collects and exports and on a local coffee branding project.

Cooperativa Agropecuaria Quiraguira Limitada – COAQUIL is an organization of small producers of high quality coffee founded in 1991 and located in the Montecillos and Opalaca mountain range region, in the community of Otatala, Masaguara, Intibuca (Honduras).

Its specialty is high quality coffees under the certifications of organic and fair trade (FLO-Cert).  COAQUIL offers member families a range of services including: wet milling, drying, transportation, training and quality inputs. COAQUIL also offers access to roasting, packaging and marketing services, and a laboratory with highly trained experts in coffee cupping and quality analysis.

COAQUIL is the only coffee cooperative in the Masaguara area, providing an opportunity for the economic and social development of coffee-producing families and their communities. It also provides support for infrastructure (roads, electricity supply, drinking water or protection of springs).

FLO/Fairtrade Premium money is invested in education, health, productivity improvement and community projects. It functions as an agent of change and development for the coffee-growing communities, contributing to the implementation of community projects and initiatives.

Coopfam was born from the idea of a group of producers willing to do things differently and so have a better life. It grew up little by little based on family values and the principles of “what is good for oneself has to be good for everybody”.

Its goal is to take care of people and relationships, seekinf real benefits for everyone, and improve the quality of the production, of the products and of hundreds of families.

This cooperative, founded in 2007, is formed by families from seven different villages in Aceh province, Sumatra. The cooperative has more than 1,600 members.

This cooperative uses the Fairtrade Premium to palliate the effects of the global warming in the area, such as heavy rains or landslides, creating a social fund to cover the basic needs of the victims of these natural disasters.

This cooperative, founded in 2001, is made up of 47 first-grade producer cooperatives, all located in the Sidama Zone, in southern Ethiopia.

The cooperative has more than 85,000 producers, who have very small properties, with an average of ½ to 1 hectare per person, and keep traditional cultivation methods, respectful with the environment and people.

Central Cooperativa Indígena del Cauca (CENCOIC)

Organization of coffee producers founded in 1980 as the commercial branch of the indigenous movement in Cauca, Colombia (Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca).

The organization achieved Fair Trade certification in 1995 and, thanks to this, it has been able to defend small coffee-producing families from the abuses of the large dominant multinational coffee growers.

Nowadays, CENCOIC identifies coffee as its main line of activity, with groups of producers that belong to at least 24 indigenous reserves in the department of Cauca, and in different indigenous groups located in the municipalities of Caldono, Piendamó, El Tambo, Santander de Quilichao, Toribio, Jambaló, Inza, Buenos Aires and Suárez.

It was born in 1983, as a National Association. It is located in the Southern Altiplano of Bolivia, in the basin of the Salar de Uyuni and Coipasa, at an altitude of between 3,600 and 3,800 meters.

ANAPQUI brings together nearly 1000 small traditional producers of quinoa, gathered in 7 Regional Associations. ANAPQUI has focused on recovering the part of the value of the production that the intermediary companies devalued.

The organization’s mission is to recover the traditional quinoa cultivation system, using methods that are respectful of the environment, such as ecological soil management or ecological pest management, in which the use of chemical products is prohibited. harmful.

Thanks to Fair Trade they can invest in the control, monitoring, internal certification and promotion of the organic cultivation of quinoa. There is also a training, education and communication project that emphasizes the training of leaders, and the training of their employees, benefiting more than 1,800 families.

UCCEI is a cooperative that brings together several cooperatives of small coffee-producing families in Nicaragua. In total, it groups 955 people, where 22.51% are women, with an approximate family nucleus of 4,775 people.

Its main objective is to offer services such as financing, technical advice, marketing… They work to improve the standard of living of male and female producers and of the families of the grassroots cooperatives that make up UCCEI.

Its mission is to be a union of cooperatives with consolidated social and environmental responsibility, sustainable, recognized nationally and internationally and with credibility in the coffee industry. Incorporating added value to the activities developed by the UCCEI and its associated cooperatives.

For UCCEI, each cup of its coffees represents more than a quality product; It is a product that meets the aspirations of their families to share the fruit of their efforts, and to achieve benefits that allow them to live better.

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.