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PROCOCER
La Cooperativa de Servicios Multiples de Productores de Cafe Organico Certificado Las Segovias 
Fast Facts
Part of the CECOCAFEN coordinating union
Founded in 1999
Located in Nueva Segovia (northern Nicaragua)
600 member families
100% organic farmers
Potential to export 27 containers in 2009
PROCOCER began in 1998 as a four-year initiative by the Small Farmers and Ranchers Union (UNAG) - in order to give technical assistance in the production of organic certified coffee to previously "non-associated" coffee farmers. The project integrated 1,200 producers from the municipalities of Jícaro, Murra, Ciudad Antigua, San Fernando y Jalapa and by the end of the project, 150 of them decided to form PROCOCER. They held their first general assembly in October 1999 and the Cooperativa de Servicios Multiples was formally established.
Today PROCOCER has approximately 600 members. Membership is open and voluntary; and the organization is controlled democratically with members actively participating in decision-making and policy making for the coop. Representatives are chosen from the separate farmer groups in the different geographical territories to participate in the delegates' assembly and are required to report back directly to the communities they represent.
In 2003, PROCOCER became one of the founding membes of the Association of Cooperatives of Small-Scale Producers (CAFENICA) - which helps promote member-organizations' coffee and gain support for business management projects. They also are part of the CECOCAFEN central coordinating union of coops, which is now their main source for financing as well as the market channel for their Fair Trade and organic green coffee.
Since 2005, PROCOCER has partnered with a number of local and international allies, which has facilitated the development of their own roasted coffee brand, "El Doradito" for the local market, and has helped them gain technical assistance, strengthen their organization, improve quality control, and improve administration capacity. In 2005, they presented their Rural Tourism project to the Nicaraguan United Nations Program hoping to gain a managerial capacity for and general understanding of their potential for tourism in Las Segovias. They were awarded support for the costs of basic infrastructure and to further develop the project.
They have a clear mission: to strengthen the organizational and financial capacity of the coop, increase their productive yields, and assure the quality of their coffee in order to meet the demands of the specialty coffee market. They'd also like to diversify their productive and economic activities in order to improve the well-being of their member families while upholding environmentally sustainable practices.
Coop Coffees visited PROCOCER in January 2009 with Larry's Beans and will be importing coffee from the coop through CECOCAFEN.
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