Strengthening productive and association capabilities of 100 smallholder specialty coffee producers
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Strengthening productive and association capabilities of 100 smallholder specialty coffee producers_3

STRENGTHENING PRODUCTIVE AND ASSOCIATION CAPABILITIES

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT THROUGH TRAINING IN COLOMBIA

  • Project Budget: € 32,920

  • Beneficiaries:
    Directly 100 smallholder producers from four organizations
    Indirectly:
    ∙ 550 members from 100 producer families, with farms ranging from 0.5 to 2 ha., and average annual production of 674 kg/ha;
    ∙ 46% women and 54% men (average age, 46); 200 persons, ages 18 through 30 with medium education level;
    ∙ 350 people, ages 31 to 50 with basic education level.

  • Partners: 4

PURPOSE

Organizational (PHASE I)

  • Strengthen productive, association and commercial capabilities in families.

Technical (PHASE II)

  • Adopt Good Agricultural Practices (GAP);
  • Implement ecological techniques for coffee drying and wastewater treatment, and
  • Develop protocols for quality certification to increase sales.

Productivity (PHASE III)

  • Implement training.

This project was possible thanks to the support of Fundación Social, the Coffee Life Alliance, the National Coffee Growers Federation of Colombia (FNC), Maison Josy Juckem, and the EFICO Foundation and ran from February 2011 to October 2013.

Other partners - providing instructors for training - are: University of Nariño • National Learning Services SENA • Educational Institution for Rural Development -
La Unión.

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