Trade for Development Centre is a programme of Enabel, the Belgian development agency.

CAPEMA

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

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 […]

Maquita Cushunchic Comercializando como Hermanos (MCCH)

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 […]

USCOOP Danyiwe

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. […]

Mount Elgon agroforestry Communities cooperative entrerprise limited – MEACCE

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. […]

Laviskscof co-operative

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 […]

Kabonero Mountainous Coffee

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 […]

BOCU: Bukonzo Organic Farmers Cooperative Union

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 […]

Nkamwa Yacu

La Organisation de producteurs NKAMWA YACU est une organisation de caféiculteurs des collines de la commune de Butihinda dans la province de Muyinga, près de la frontière Tanzanienne. Elle a été créé le 15 janvier 2007 par des caféiculteurs afin de construire une station de lavage et de se doter d’une infrastructure pour transformer leur […]

KOAKAKA

The region around the Great Lakes of Central Africa — Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo — is better known for its conflict than for its coffee. However, these countries are traditional coffee-producing lands that have emerged as a vital source of high-end coffee in less than ten years. The […]

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