Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples Sol & Cafe Ltda

Funding to support specialty coffee exports

Peru

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.

Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples Sol & Café Ltda (Sol & Café), founded in 2004, is a cooperative of small growers involved in the production and direct export of Arabica coffee for specialty markets. Sol & Café is active in the coffee-growing province of Jaén in the rural department of Cajamarca, one of the poorest of the country, with one third living in poverty and two thirds of those living in extreme poverty.

Sol & Café represents various base organizations, which together, represent almost 1,000 small coffee farmers. In 2008, the cooperative received Fair Trade certification and more than half of the members also have sustainable certification by Rainforest Alliance. Farmers actively participate in the cooperative - also at management and governance level.

Sol & Café has been an Oikocredit partner since 2011.