Peru APROCCURMA Fairtrade Organic comes to us from producer-members of APROCCURMA (Asociacion de Productores Cafetaleros de la Cuenca del Rio Marañon). APROCCURMA was formed in 2012 with the goal of improving local producers' quality of life. On family-owned farms in the province of Rodrigues de Mendoza, in Peru's Amazonia region, read more
Coffee has been cultivated in Iyula villages since 1938, and in 1952 the Iyula Agricultural Marketing Cooperative and Society (AMCOS) was formed—though under a different legal form that was owned by the Coffee Authority of Tanzania (CAT). It 1981 it took on its current AMCOS status, and over the last read more
Flor de Cafe is an agricultural and services cooperative founded in 1996, currently with more than 1,500 members. Coffee from Flor de Cafe is grown to the standards implemented by the cooperative and goes through a quality inspection at the collection stage to make ensure that the vehicle used to read more
Finca Palmichal is high on the western side of the Central Andes mountain range, near the municipality of Genova, in the department of Quindío. This region went through violent and difficult times during the peak of the guerrilla expansion in the country. But now, after the negotiation between the government read more
APROSELVA (Asociacion de Productores Cafetaleros Selva Central) is a producer cooperative in the Junin region of Peru. The co-op consists of 530 producer members from 15 small communities in the provinces of Chanchamayo and Satipo, between 1,200 and 1,800 masl. These beautiful farms are rich in agricultural diversity, from shade-giving read more
Our Santa Rosa Los Alamos is a blend of coffees from seven dedicated producers on the western edge of the department of Jalapa, in eastern Guatemala. Six are from the municipality of Mataquescuintla (where, legend has it, a donkey made of gold — yet to be unearthed — is buried read more
Finca Churupampa, in the Chirrinos, San Ignacio region of Northern Peru, was started in 2011 as a family farm. It has since grown to 162 producing members, including families from the districts of Chirinos, Coipa and Tabaconas. The farm is certified Organic and the group is focused on improving the read more
Topacio SHP EP is grown by small producers in the regions of Jaltenango and Villacorzo Chiapas, Mexico. These small producers hand-pulp their coffee and ferment it in little tanks before sun-drying the beans. Harvest occurs between January and April. Parchment coffee is stored in the warehouse of Exportadora de Cafe read more
In 1999, a group of farmers in the municipality of Motozintla de Mendoza, in Chiapas, Mexico, began working together, and in 2000 they officially formed the Movimiento Campesiono de Delisario SPR de R.L. cooperative — or more simply, MOCABE. They founded MOCABE as a Social Solidarity Society (SSS), a legal read more
More than 6,000 farmers supply the Mavis Bank Coffee Factory with coffee grown from the Blue Mountain area, where it is thoroughly inspected and cultivated before it is sold. Only coffee grown in the legally defined Blue Mountain range can be certified as Blue Mountain Coffee. The area is favored read more
