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 […]
Type Organisatie: Producentenorganisatie
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. […]
MEACCE is a farmers’ organisation that came into being in 2017 following the collapse of the Gumutindo Cooperative Union. The 3300 farmers growing coffee, banana and honey, located between 1300 and 2200 meters above sea level, mobilised and grouped together to register MEACCE in order to aggregate and export their coffee to fair trade markets. […]
Founded as a farmer-based community cooperative in 2012 and implemented in Bukoto village, Masaka district, Kabonera Sub County by Ugacof Limited and Agro Eco-Louis Bolk Institute of East Africa under the Progresso programme (registration No.9865/RCS). The organisation is part of the washed Robusta coffee project which aims to increase profitability from coffee production through collective marketing and bulking. The organisation now has 100 fully registered members who are the […]
Mainly made up of small producers, Kibinge was founded in 1995 by coffee farmers in the Masaka region (south of Uganda). They seek to provide technical services in agricultural production, gender integration, poverty eradication, value addition and market access to complement the Uganda governmental programmes. By providing services directly linked to coffee production and sales to its members (processing, certification, transport, marketing, etc.), Kibinge has remained true […]
Established in 2013, the Fairtrade certified cooperative located in Binyangabu District, Kabonero Sub County is made up of 757 coffee farmers (of which 18 are persons with disabilities, 252 are women and 236 are young adults). The coffee is carefully handpicked and processed at an altitude of up to 1990m, bringing out hints of caramel, chocolate, berry and forest fruit flavours. As a […]
Made up of 2,000 members and located in the Rwenzori Mountains of western Uganda, BOCU started in 2011 as a consortium of six NGOs which promoted organic agriculture in Bukonzo. Using the very successful micro-washing station model to promote traceability and increase farmers’ income, the consortium gradually turned into a cooperative and a coffee exporter. It even became a […]
One of the many cooperatives in Central Ghana’s Ashanti region is the Kookoo Pa Farmers Association. The organization originated with a Dutch NGO Solidaridad program, which trained 352 farmers in sustainable production methods using the Utz standards. In 2009, the farmers decided to create an independent organization to defend their interests better. Today, approximately 8600 […]
La Coopérative Agricole Régionale de l’Agnéby a vu le jour en 2000, à 80 km au nord d’Abidjan. Cette organisation apporte son appui à 639 cacaoculteurs au niveau de la production, de la transformation et de la commercialisation de leur cacao. La COOPARA veut assurer l’avenir de la production en mettant fortement l’accent sur sa […]
