Not exact matches
David Griswold cofounded and ran Aztec Harvest, a sales - and - marketing outfit for
coffee farmers from Mexican
cooperatives that was owned by the
farmers.
Through a new smallholder
farmer loan initiative with the Inter-American Developmental Bank (IDB) directed toward a women - led
coffee cooperative, and an expanded partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) aimed at helping young
coffee farmers in post-conflict zones build greater resiliency and expertise, Starbucks will help create opportunities in some of Colombia's most vulnerable
coffee growing communities.
Several years ago, the Rainforest Alliance partnered with the local
coffee cooperative UNECAFE (Unidad Ecológica para el Sector Café Oaxaqueño) to pilot a reforestation program with certified
coffee farmers to restore degraded areas within and around
coffee parcels.
Small
Farmers, Big Change quotes a
coffee cooperative rep from Peru:
The GUAYA'B Association is a
cooperative of 292 small
coffee farmers in the mountainous Guatemalan state of Huehuetenango.
As part of their community based tourism, there are many
cooperatives of
coffee growers, fishers, organic
farmers, natural dyers, etc..