Archives: Cooperatives

The Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera Laguna de Los Cóndores is a social organisation operating in the province of Luya, part of the Amazonas region in northern Peru. It was founded by 12 coffee producers in the district of Providencia (Luya) on 3 January 2017.

Currently, the cooperative consists of 800 coffee-producing families, including 243 women and a total of 557 registered members.

The cooperative aims to promote the collective development of coffee-producing families by establishing direct trade models with producer cooperatives in Europe and the United States.

The organisation focuses on the social and economic development of the associated families and the communities in which they develop. It works on the training of its members and continuous improvement to ensure the sustainability of the process. In addition, it offers technical assistance, certification and commercialisation, involving the producers.

The partners' farms are located at altitudes ranging from 1200 m.a.s.l. to 2200 m.a.s.l. These altitudes allow us to have varieties (Typica, Caturra, Bourbon, Catuaí, Villa Sarchi) with high productivity in some areas and high quality in others, offering coffees of between 82 and 86 SCA points.

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

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

Investments are made 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 to enable UCA SJRC to profile the quality of the coffee it collects and exports and on a local coffee branding project.

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

It specialises in high quality coffees under organic and fair trade (FLO-Cert) certifications. COAQUIL offers member families a range of services including: wet milling, drying, transport, 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 infrastructure support (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 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.

Cauca Coffee Growers' Cooperative (CAFICAUCA)

The Cauca Coffee Growers' Cooperative was created on 12 December 1961 by 297 coffee farmerswith the aim of contributing to the well-being of the partner families and the development of the coffee sector, through the provision of services for the production and marketing of coffee.

In 1988, with the help of the Departmental Committee of Coffee Growers, the Cooperative built the CAFICAUCA coffee threshing machine. The objective was to carry out the industrial processing of the parchment, to give it added value and, in this way, to participate in the export of the grain to different parts of the world.

Today, Caficauca has more than 3,000 partners of 24 municipalities in the department of Popayán36 buying agencies and 8 Agrocaficauca warehouses. They work to achieve socially meaningful marketing that benefits their coffee growers. All the processes they carry out follow the parameters of the Quality Assurance System, which includes: manual, policy, system and quality assurance. quality.

When you choose to buy Colombian coffee beans from this cooperative, you are supporting a production model that prioritises the quality of the beans and the wellbeing of indigenous communities, reflecting a deep commitment to social justice and sustainability.

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 organisation'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, recognised 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.