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Trading Partners
Coop Coffees works in partnership all over the world with farmer cooperatives that are local organizations founded and democratically governed by the farmers themselves.
Read more about our trading partners in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, East Timor,, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Sumatra (Indonesia), Tanzania, Uganda
Brazil
Trading partner: COOPFAM
Coopfam is an association of small-scale farmers located in the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. The group was formed from a collective desire to improve the living standard of farmers and to reduce poverty and emigration. In 1991, seventy-six families united to form the cooperative, determined to increase the productivity of their small plots and sustain the quality of family-oriented agriculture in the region.
Bolivia
Trading partner: 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...
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Colombia
Trading partners: Fondo Paez and APCO (Ocamonte)
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...
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Dominican Republic
Trading partner: 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.
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East Timor
Trading partner: 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.
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El Salvador
Trading partners: ACOES and COMUS
Cooperative Coffees met ACOES 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 5 in Sincuyo. COMUS is an association of over 60 communities and offers services that include education, health, and technical training.
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Ethiopia
Trading partners: Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union(OCFCU) and Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union
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
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Guatemala
Trading partners: Apecaform, Chajul, Rio Azul, and Santa Anita .
Each cooperative is a diverse group of farmers, 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.
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Mexico
Trading Partners: Maya Vinic, Michiza, 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.
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Nicaragua
Trading partners: Cecocafen (PROCOCER)
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.
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Peru
Trading partners: CENFROCAFE and Pangoa
Allies: CEPICAFE.
CEPICAFE is a second level non-profit organization that represents coffee and sugar cane producers of the Piuran mountains and the northeast of Peru. Coop Coffees imports coffee from one of their associated coops, CENFROCAFE. The CAC Pangoa was founded by its original 50 members in 1977. Today, its members, team of directors, technicians and employees are working hard to compete in a complicated international market.
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Sumatra (Indonesia)
Trading partners: APKO, KBQB.
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.
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Tanzania
Trading partner: KNCU
KNCU has been in the coffee business for a long time. Its roots go back to 1933 as a registered union under Tanzania’s Cooperative Societies Ordinance. Quality is a primary focus of KNCU. The Union believes that small-scale farming is the best way to achieve the highest quality coffee. Currently, the Union trades coffee with 67 Primary Cooperative Societies, representing 60,000 farmer members.
Uganda
Trading partner: Gumutindo
Gumutindo was founded in 1998 after the coffee industry in Uganda had all but collapsed. With the goal of producing and exporting high quality arabica coffee beans, Gumutindo started with a couple hundred dedicated farmers who were interested in improving quality through organic practices. Now, the coop has more than 6,000 farmers and exports to Europe, New Zealand and North America.
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