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Colcocoa

Certified cocoa for thriving communities.
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Colcocoa is a company dedicated to the export of high-quality, certified, and traceable cocoa from Colombia. Since its founding in 2012, Colcocoa has worked hand in hand with cocoa producers, associations, and cooperatives across multiple regions, including Huila, Antioquia, Norte de Santander, and Quindío. The company aims to promote inclusive prosperity while ensuring a positive environmental impact.

Through the Echar Pa'lante Program, Colcocoa has developed a rural prosperity program that supports farmers and their families in achieving better quality cocoa, higher productivity, and improved economic well-being. The program focuses on environmental integrity, social equity, and community happiness as fundamental pillars of continuous development. 

This funding campaign will support expanding working capital for trade, allowing cooperatives, communities, and farmers to better participate in global cacao markets.

Expanding working capital means:

  • Faster and fair payments for farmers: In some regions, farmers have to wait weeks or even months to get paid after they've sold their cocoa. When Colcocoa works with cooperatives, they will have access to more working capital. Colcocoa can pay farmers promptly, helping them cover daily expenses, invest in their farms, and support their families without financial stress.
  • More stability: Colcocoa and cooperatives connect farmers to the global market. To improve commercial chain stability, the promoter helps cooperatives deal with cash flow gaps when they can't afford to buy farmers' cocoa immediately. More working capital allows Colcocoa and cooperatives to purchase and store cocoa efficiently, ensuring farmers always have a reliable product buyer.
  • Stronger local economies: When farmers and cooperatives have access to capital, money stays in the community. Farmers can pay workers, invest in farm improvements, and support local businesses, fostering a self-sustaining economic ecosystem. and services. This creates a stronger and more resilient regional economy.
  • A more reliable and sustainable supply chain: Delayed payments can push farmers to sell to intermediaries at lower prices or abandon sustainable farming practices. With better working capital, cooperatives can offer fair prices and steady support, encouraging farmers to focus on quality and sustainability.

What is the impact?

Colcocoa implements a holistic program to ensure that its cocoa is certified, fully traceable and high-quality. But not only that, the company was built with prosperity and sustainability driven by community as its core. The company developed a voluntary standard which is verified independently on a yearly-basis called Echar Pa'lante that seeks measurable impact in six pillars: quality, productivity, economic well-being, environmental integrity, social equity and happiness.

Strengthen sustainable smallholder agriculture: over 1400 cocoa producers receive technical assistance to increase productivity levels, with integral environment practices, improving farmers’ financial health. The farmers get access to fair trade international markets and receive price premiums for fulfilling sustainability standards, increasing their income.

Implement sustainable and resilient food production systems, promoting responsible consumption: the cocoa is traceable and sustainable, attaining high social and environmental standards. The farmers receive capacity building training around agroforestry practices, climate smart and regenerative agriculture that protect biodiversity and reduce deforestation.

Promotion of fair work opportunities and higher productivity levels: Colcocoa’s approach is community-driven, based on social equity and happiness of the partner farmers. Colcocoa provides technical training and with the partnership the farmers can reach higher productivity, access to international markets and more stable financial health.

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About the Promoter

About Adega Cooperativa Cantanhede

Colcocoa implements a holistic program to ensure that its cocoa is certified, fully traceable and high-quality. But not only that, the company was built with prosperity and sustainability driven by community as its core. The company developed a voluntary standard which is verified independently on a yearly-basis called Echar Pa'lante that seeks measurable impact in six pillars: quality, productivity, economic well-being, environmental integrity, social equity and happiness.

Strengthen sustainable smallholder agriculture: over 1400 cocoa producers receive technical assistance to increase productivity levels, with integral environment practices, improving farmers’ financial health. The farmers get access to fair trade international markets and receive price premiums for fulfilling sustainability standards, increasing their income.

Implement sustainable and resilient food production systems, promoting responsible consumption: the cocoa is traceable and sustainable, attaining high social and environmental standards. The farmers receive capacity building training around agroforestry practices, climate smart and regenerative agriculture that protect biodiversity and reduce deforestation.

Promotion of fair work opportunities and higher productivity levels: Colcocoa’s approach is community-driven, based on social equity and happiness of the partner farmers. Colcocoa provides technical training and with the partnership the farmers can reach higher productivity, access to international markets and more stable financial health.

Promoter website

http://www.colcocoa.com.co/

Team

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