The Central Cooperativa Ind\u00edgena del Cauca (CENCOIC) is an organisation of coffee producers founded in 1980 as the commercial arm of the indigenous movement in Cauca, Colombia (Consejo Regional Ind\u00edgena del Cauca).<\/p>\n
The organisation achieved Fairtrade certification in 1995 and, thanks to this, has been able to defend small coffee producers from the abuses of the large, dominant multinational coffee growers.<\/p>\n
Currently, CENCOIC identifies coffee as its main line of action, with groups of producers belonging to at least 24 indigenous reserves in the department of Cauca, and in different indigenous groups located in the municipalities of Caldono, Piendam\u00f3, El Tambo, Santander de Quilichao, Toribio, Jambal\u00f3, Inza, Buenos Aires and Su\u00e1rez.<\/p>\n