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Trading Partners
Cooperative Coffees currently works with 18 small farmer organizations in 11 distinct, coffee producing countries. Our trade partners are farmer cooperatives — local organizations founded and democratically governed by the farmers themselves. Fair Trade helps build pride, independence and empowerment for small farmers, their families and their communities.
Read more about our trading partners in Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, East Timor, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Rwanda, Sumatra (Indonesia).
Bolivia
Our newest trading partner is FECAFEB.
The Federation of Exporting Coffee Producers (FECAFEB) was founded in 1991 as a national organization to defend the rights and needs of small-scale coffee farmers. FECAFEB has taken huge steps forward and seems to be right in stride with the new Bolivian political reality in support of Indigenous voice and rights. Read more...
Click here for more information on Bolivia.
Colombia
Our trading partner is Fondo Paez.
The main cash crop of this region is still coffee, and, to ensure a stable income for their members, Fondo Paez organized community based coffee cooperatives. They became more organized, and, by 2000, they were selling coffee through the Coffee Federation’s Specialty Coffee program. In 2003, they produced seven containers of coffee, both conventional and organic certified. Read more...
Click here for more information on Colombia.
Dominican Republic
We work with the farmer cooperative FEDECARES.
FEDECARES was born out of the necessity to rebuild the coffee regions after the devastating Cyclone David hit the Dominican Republic in 1979. The producers understood that by joining forces, they would become stronger. They began by creating an individual community association. Since then, it has grown to include 157 associations in 13 different provinces. The main office of FEDECARES is located in the city of San Cristóbal. Read more...
Click here for more information on the Dominican Republic.
East Timor
We work with the national cooperative, Cafe Timor.Cooperativa Café Timor (CCT) was founded in the wake of the destruction of much of East Timor after it gained independence from Indonesia in 1999. In 2000, a group of farmers, in an attempt to successfully market their coffee internationally, united to form CCT. Today, the organization has grown to include 19,600 members from 16 base cooperatives and 494 small-scale farmer groups. CCT obtained Fair Trade certification from Fairtrade Labeling Organizations International (FLO) in 2001 and has since greatly benefited from the Fair Trade price. Read more
Click here for more information on East Timor.
El Salvador
We work with the cooperative ACOES
Cooperative Coffees met this cooperative through contact Ernesto Mendez, professor of agroecology at the University of Vermont. The small cooperative of 20 families consists of two sub-groups with 15 members in La Concordia and five in Sincuyo. Their main goals are to improve the quality of both their coffee and their lives and they are well on track of doing both. Read more.
Click here for more information on El Salvador.
Ethiopia
We work with the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union(OCFCU)
The Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (OCFCU) is an exporting cooperative with offices in Addis Ababa and affiliated farmer cooperatives located throughout the coffee growing regions of Ethiopia. Oromia was established in 1999 to facilitate the direct exportation of coffee produced by Ethiopia's small farmers and assist in marketing, processing, and credit issues
Click here for more information on Ethiopia.
Guatemala
We work with five farmer cooperatives: Apecaform, Chajul, Nahuala, Rio Azul, and Santa Anita .
The five cooperatives are a diverse group of farmers, each cooperative consisting of anywhere between 170 members to almost 2000. Many of them encourage female membership and all of them strive to overcome the devastating impact and effects of their country's treachorous -- and recent -- civil war.
Click here for information on Guatemala.
Mexico
We work with four farmer partners in Mexico: Maya Vinic, Michiza, Selva Negra, and Yachil.
Whether it's fighting against price-gouging coyotes (intermediaries), striving to maintain local culture and customs, or coping with forced displacement, all four of our partners in Mexico are dedicated to improving their lives and those of their families and neighbors by incorporating Fair Trade and organic practices into their coffee production. Maya Vinic has been a faithful and helpful partner of CoopCoffees since 2001.
Click here for more information on Mexico.
Nicaragua
We work with CECOSEMAC, Cecocafen and La FEM.
Concerned with practicing sustainable ecological modes of coffee production, CECOSEMAC and Cecocafen are two umbrella organizations that represent several smaller cooperatives of producers and their families. La FEM is a particularly unique cooperative in that it is directed and run by women whose primary concern, along with coffee production, is the promotion of women's rights.
Click here for more information on Nicaragua.
Peru
We work with two farmer cooperatives, CEPICAFE and Pangoa.
CEPICAFE was founded in March 1995 with 200 members. It has now grown into a second level non-profit organization which represents coffee and sugar cane producers of the Piuran mountains and the northeast of Peru. The CAC Pangoa was founded by its original 50 members in 1977. Today, its 721 members, along with its team of directors, technicians and employees are working hard to compete in a complicated international market.
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Rwanda
Our trading partner is COOPAC.
COOPAC (Cooperative pour la Promotion des Activities Café) was founded in April 2001 with 110 members. Working collectively, COOPAC focused on regenerating the coffee sector in the Gisenyi region of Lake Kivu. After the devastation of the genocide, organizations like COOPAC strive to revitalize their country and people. With their Fair Trade Premium, COOPAC has been able to assist in various projects such as construction of schools, health facilities, roads and bridges and has helped improve the well-being of women and children in the region.
Click here for more information on Rwanda.
Sumatra (Indonesia)
We work with the farmer cooperative, PPKGO and KBQB.
PPKGO is located in the Gayo Highlands region of Aceh Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. The cooperative has over 1,600 members of which 20% are women and spans 32 communities. This region is renowned as the largest producer of Arabica coffee in Southeast Asia, but also as the site of the seemingly ceaseless civil war between Acehnese separatists and the Indonesian military. KBQB is a huge cooperative, consisting of 8,000 members in villages throughout Bener Meriah and Aceh Tengah around Lake Tawar. The members are organized into 123 groups, who sell to approximately 100 elected collectors.
Click here for more information on Indonesia.
