Uniespecies S.A.

Exporting high-quality Guatemalan vegetables

Guatemala

Comerç Just

Comerç de productes que han estat certificats i que porten una etiqueta de Comerç Just. Un exemple és una cooperativa de productors que col·lectivament venen el seu cacau a una organització de Comerç Just.

Verd

Promou i/o dóna suport a la protecció del medi ambient. Un exemple d'això seria una cooperativa de producció agroecològica.

Uniespecies SA, founded in 1991, exports fresh vegetables (French beans, snow peas, sugar snaps, broccoli, courgettes and baby carrots) to the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany.

The organization buys vegetables from Guatemalan small-scale producers and adds value through washing, a refrigeration and packaging process, and exporting the vegetables.

Uniespecies and its suppliers are fair-trade certified. And the processing plant is certified under the protocols of British Retail Consortium (BRC), which sets very demanding norms and regulations for the industry.

Uniespecies has its own technical assistance department which provides assistance to farmers with respect to plant health, soil, fertilization and the certification process.

Oikocredit’s loan to Uniespecies is used as working capital, mainly for the purchase of fresh vegetables from local small-scale farmers.

Uniespecies SA has been an Oikocredit partner since 2010.