CENFROCAFE was created on 26 October 1999 in northern Peru. It provides many services to its members (agricultural technical assistance, organisational development, access to health services, etc.) with the objective of increasing production, improving the quality of coffee and of contributing to the well-being of its members and the development of their communities. In 2007, it obtained the Fairtrade […]
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CAPEMA began its activities in 2007 under the name Asociación Central Agropecuaria Perla del Mayo. It was in 2012 that CAPEMA really became a cooperative formed by small coffee producers who had already received organic and fair trade certification in 2009. The main activity of the cooperative is the production and commercialisation of coffee. CAPEMA has 255 partners in the provinces of Moyobamba and Rioja in […]
APROCAM is a non-profit organisation that brings together small coffee and cocoa producers from the districts of La Peca, Copallín and Imaza in the province of Bagua in Peru. Created in 2003, the organisation currently owns 235 hectares of coffee plantations and 495 hectares of cocoa plantations. APROCAM has been Fairtrade certified since 2010 and received organic certification from IMO Control in 2012. In […]
Founded in 1985, Maquita Cushunchic Comercializando como Hermanos (MCCH) is a private, non-profit socio-economic institution. Maquita began its work with grassroots church communities in the south of Quito, Afro-Ecuadorian farmers from Esmeraldas, and indigenous people from Cotopaxi and Chimborazo who brought their products directly to sell them at markets, fairs and through distribution groups in Quito. It began with basic products, forming a network […]
Few countries can boast as much natural and cultural wealth as Ecuador. Its four major assets: the coastline, the sierra, the Amazon and the Galapagos Islands constitute four ecosystems with an infinite biodiversity. Twenty-five percent of the population is made up of indigenous communities with ancestral traditions, whose assertion of their identity has made Ecuador a […]
The Bolivian Network of Community Solidarity Tourism, more commonly known as Red Tusoco, is a Bolivian association that brings together some twenty organisations and companies to develop community solidarity tourism throughout the country. The association supports the development of organisations in rural and indigenous communities in Bolivia that strive to improve the living conditions of their populations by […]
Created in 1997, Cumbre del Sajama is a Bolivian organisation that helps cooperatives and mining communities. The organisation offers services for socio-economic development through its team of professionals who are experts in social, legal and environmental issues related to mining. These services are provided in order to promote corporate social responsibility. Through its activities, Cumbre del […]
Traditional handicrafts are a source of income in many Latin American countries. Ayni Bolivia is a fair-trade organisation working with 250 families of artisan producers from all over Bolivia, developing their skills and abilities to create high-quality products. Since 2002, Ayni Bolivia of La Paz has specialised in selling traditional clothes and toys that have […]
L’huile essentielle de patchouli est distillée à partir des feuilles de l’herbe du même nom. Ingrédient aromatique important pour l’industrie des cosmétiques et la parfumerie, cet excellent fixateur de parfums n’est pas concurrencé par des substituts synthétiques. Autre fait intéressant, pour les producteurs cette fois : le patchouli se cultive en association avec d’autres cultures […]
Danyiwe est une coopérative féminine active dans le karité, composée de plus de 820 membres (productrices, collectrices), répartis en 18 groupements. Le but de la coopérative est de lutter contre la pauvreté des femmes en cherchant des marchés de manière collective, en se lançant dans la transformation des amandes de karité en beurre de qualité, en renforçant les capacités de production. […]
