Cauca Indigenous Cooperative Central (CENCOIC)

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

The organisation 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.